Thread: Is there no going back?

I have been shaving with a straight razor every day since early July. I love SR shaving. It feels so natural to me now. I look at my DEs in their storage units and I wonder if I will ever go back to using one again. For those of you who regularly use a SR...do you ever go back and use a DE? Even for just for old times sake? Kind of sad really...I very much enjoyed my DE razors.

I do. I have too many nice DE and SE razors to ignore them. I do enjoy SR shaving much more, that's for sure.

I will use a DE on Sunday's about 1/2 the year. I didn't start wet shaving with a DE,I started with a straight so the DEs are treats.

I save my DE for travel use. I tell myself I'll use the DE if I'm in a hurry, but that hasn't happened in a long time...

I went through a long stretch, maybe a couple of years, even more, where I only shaved with a straight. No interest in DE or SE. I referred to them contemptuously as 'contraptions.' Then if I was running late for church I started occasionally allowing myself to shave with my then favorite DE, the Merkur 37C slant.

Now I'm back acquiring DEs, and SEs, and loving shaving with the darn things. So don't get rid of any too soon. Just put them away in a safe place and you may be back to them one day.

I have never been a DE fan.
I work at a job that puts me in a remote location for 21 days at a time. On one shift, I dinged the only razor I brought with me. I had no way of fixing the ding with me either. I thought to myself, with all of the other things in my arsenal of shaving, how bad would it be if I had to used a multi blade for 10 days. After the first shave I thought to myself, if no one says anything and I get away with it I will wait to the end of my shift to shave again. It was most unpleasant, I thought being as that I had pre shave and a nice soap and brush that it would be much better than I ever remember it being. It seems to me it was much much worse. Funny how when you raise the bar how low the bottom really is. DE razors are suppose to be a pretty good shave, so I imagine you will not have the same thoughts.

Hold on to your DE.
First time you use your straight in a hurry you will learn that you really shouldn't.
DE is for just such an occasion, IMO.

I use both. Not a big problem really. The DE's I have give a shave very close to what you get with a straight.

The straight is still my main shaver but if I'm in a hurry or not so well focused the DE is what I use.

Since switching to straight razors I have never looked back and had even one shave with a D/E.
Seeing that one of my relatives must have been a gorilla, I do pick one up every couple of days to clean up the area of my lower neck at the beard hair/chest hair line.

Pete <:-}

I came to SRs from cartridges. My only regret is that I didn't find straight razor shaving 40 years ago.