Thread: It was inevitable

Having ventured into the vintage razor / wet shaving world about 3 years ago I, like many, started with a new DE (Merkur) and then immediately succumbed to a RAD that included many vintage Gillettes, Gem/Ever Readys and Shick injectors

Then I was gifted a nice Filarmonica and located a good Dubl Duck at a yard sale. Having tried to shave with razors that weren't "shave ready", I mostly just kept the razors in a dry environment and put them to rest. A year later I got a nice Wade and Butcher that was my wife's Great Great Grandfathers razor as well as a nice Top Flight razor.

I then went to a honing event and got the razors in decent shape and tried a few SR shaves with varying degrees of success. At the event I heard a bunch of the guys say how they never used DE's anymore after learning to SR shave. I never had great results, so I figured they were WHACK.

Fast forward, I sent off some razors to Glen aka @gssixgun to have them honed to what I considered was SR perfection. I watched several videos on Youtube and practiced practiced practiced.......

Now I almost never use a DE! Holy cow, the ritual of SR shaving is so wonderful and the shave is amazing! My skills are still growing, so I do need to use a DE for chin line clean up and stuff but, there is just something about the whole experience that actually now makes me look forward to every shave! So much so that I am already looking at all the razors (DE's and SE's) that are now going to go up for sale!

So...here I am now...slowly building up my honing stone collections and up to 9 straights of various year/origin. Yesterday I was at a honing event and actually got to go from bevel set to hair popping sharp and lastly shaving with my own "restored razor".......I guess now I am WHACK....It was bound to happen.

Thank you to all of you on this forum for posting such great information and for your friendships!

And the collection will grow from here! I started with one lonely straight razor about 3 years ago... and now have over 20 in my shave rotation and another 25 or so in the process of getting brought back to life. Welcome to RAD and its effects, and congrats on bringing that razor up to shave ready