Thread: Top 5 Confessions

Originally Posted by edk442

i do believe i've never heard of this Robert Chandler you speak of

You are correct sir...I have fixed the posting....with comment.

Well here we go!

1. Ive bought over 100 razors and only kept 1

2. I hate Bay Rum or anything Rum for that matter!

3. Ive wanted to throw my Chinese 12k out the window more times than i can count

4. I always get irritation free BBS shaves with a straight

5. I can hone way better than I strop

I'm a newb, so these are the "best" I can come up with:

5) I used to use my Gilette Atra blades for 2 to 3 weeks at a time.

4) I justified straight razor shaving to my wife by telling her how much money I'd save on blades...

3) In the last month, I've spent close to $300 just to get my initial kit (Wapi, two shave ready razors, Dovo strop, hone)

2) I practice stropping in the morning when I should be downstairs having breadfast before work.

1) I hone two handed...


Mark

Only five?

Ok well I'll try to narrow it down a little.


5. I only have on e brush, a boars hair, I don't expect I'll get another ever.

4. I hate handles on a stop. Only the regular will do a handle doesn't feel right.

3. My hones are Tiger brand slip stones bought because I was too cheap to pony up for a Norton or Coticle Now I probably never will.

2. The soap I use the most is the same one that gives me the worst shaves of all the soaps I own. I am completely addicted to its scent and have purchased multiple cakes of it.

1. I have actually spent less than a hundred bucks on shaving stuff. I have 4 different hones, 2 strops, 10 different soaps (right now), and over a dozen razors.

5. my regular brush is a $6 special from CVS.

4. i am obsessed with W&Bs right now, i have 2 of them and always looking for more, however i have not yet used one to know what the shave is like.

3. the soap i use most is williams. actually, the only soap i have.

2. all the shaving cream i have is from art of shaving. and it is the free samples. no tubes.

1. when i started shaving, ever, it took me 6 years to finish my first can of gillette foam.

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1) I've had RAD in the past and its back again although I'm not acquiring and its torture.

2) I like Jasmine, such a sweet scent.

3) Sometimes I think forking out the $ to get my whiskers removed with that lazer treatment or whatever would be a cheaper permanent way to have BBS skin.

4) I believe I could hone a straight just as good as Lynn.

5) Mama Bear soaps are on my blacklist of soaps.

These are in no particular order.

This thread is great... One of my all-time favs. Let's see what I can come up with:

5. I used to use a Mach3 cartridge for four to eight weeks. I would shave directly against the grain with no prep. :eek

4. My first straight wasn't even a Zeepk--it was a Zeepk wannabe.

3. I own six Tony Miller strops, but the one I use the most is the first one I got. And I find myself yearning for more...

2. It's taken me well over a year to get to the point where I can get close, comfortable shaves with little or no irritation. I still haven't achieved 100 percent BBS, and I'm not sure I ever will.

1. My beard, for all the trouble it's given me, is a pathetic, scraggly-looking affair when I go more than a day without shaving. And despite the fact that I shave with a huge bare blade at my throat every day, I have no hair on my chest.

Wow, not sure if I feel better or if I'll slink under the nearest rock after I hit "Post"...

Josh

Lemme see now...what to confess.

1) I'm cheap and so I only bought the head of my brush and carved the handle out of stone, traded a razor for my current strop, bought a $20 dollar coticule and ended up making a video with it for people that, as grattitude, gave me a $220 dollar coticule.

2) I don't understand the fuss about nortons...but because I'm so cheap I probably never will cause I won't buy one.

3) Collected a massive (I think so at least) amount of soaps and creams but only use about 6 of them.

4) Got into straight shaving not because I was looking for something better but simply for cheaper M3 blades on the web (cheap remember). I saw the straight and thought: I'll never need to buy new blades again!!"

5) I used an el-cheapo razor for a week (while trying to hone it all the time) and as a result looked like I got into a daily fight with a cat for about 2 weeks.

1) I've spent way more money on this I have yet to shave with a straight (awaiting re-
delivery)

2) I've purchased every hone under the sun and several books on sharpening -
I justified this by telling myself I can sharpen my chisels and chef knives better by
owning more hones

3) I practice stropping with a pencil - at least until my razors arrive.

4) If my first shave is a disaster - I'll never give up or surrender

5) I need to make sure my first shave is not a disaster so I can justify buying a
Zowada

1) I shaved naked today.
2) I have finished with a moch3 on my chin when I started.
3) I shaved naked yesterday.
4) I can't hone for crap
5) I shaved naked 2 days ago.