Thread: Esquire Magazine Blurb on Str8 Shaving

There is an article on str8 shaving in this months Esquire magazine.

True to form, the article is a whole page, 75 percent of the area is a glitzey picture (of a nice razor to be sure) and a tiny bit of text about shaving.

I don't think it is quite enough to get a beginner started.

I don't think the author actually shaved with a str8 for 2 weeks as he claimed (otherwise he would still be shaving str8 and crowing about it)!

Anyway, worth perusing at the magazine stand but not worth purchasing.

However, the cover is definitely worth purchasing...

Paul

Is it the same as this one on their website?

If so, you are right. Other than a link to AoS, there is not enough info there for a newbie to do much of anything.

I would also call BS on the author's claim of using a str8.

If the info he gives in the article was all he had to go on when he started, he would have titled his article "How to Drop $150 and Bleed."

Still buy it for the cover though.

What?! There was something about razors.... Look at those ladies!

Oh, and that TI!



Ok, one thing that he does not mention, which somewhat screams volumes....

Here's his general trend:

1. Buy Razor
2. Shave
3. You da man!

Best shave ever, I've done it for two weeks....
(owe! the razor burn is killing me....)

Ok, that last part is not conveyed in the write-up, however....

What he does not mention and is often the folly of new straight razor users (and I know I'm preaching to the converted here), is that the razor, purchased new, and yes even these TI razors, needs to be honed to shaving condition before you shave with it. If not honed, tweaked, if not tweaked STROPPED! For petes-sake strop the damn thing.... And what kills me is he's already an ambidextrous shaver with a straight razor!

This guy is a natural, huh?! A natural what, I'm not sure......

Two weeks?! My goodness that poor man.

I do...I really do appreciate his giving the good word for straight razors though. So, no matter what path he took, and how he does his work he gave the good word!



C utz


P.S. Think he'll sell me that blade at a discount price, now that he's not using it?

Notice that, although ambidextrous, he shaves right handed for the left cheek and left handed for the right. And the article implies that shaving with a straight is not much more difficult than with a quintuple bladed thingy: Smear on some goo and drag the thing across the face. Voila! (As our French friends might say.) BBS!!!

Damn. I was thinking about writing an article to a mens magazine to encourage straight shaving. Now someone beat me to it.
Maybe we should write a collective article about it to mens health or something to give useful information. Maybe eventually we could get a small column about shaving!
Hehe I doubt it is the kind of material they would be looking for for every issue though

Dang, I've been doing this wrong. I use the right on right, left on left. and the right on top.

Don

Thats awesome: drop $150 on a razor, using shaving cream, stretch skin, shave at 30 degrees.... smoothest shave ever. It is just that easy. The straights will be flying off the AOS shelves... then people coming a back all bloodied in a few days... Ummm, I think this $150 razor is defective..... (You know, becuase I heard TI is having some QA issues... )

Originally Posted by ccddo

Thats awesome: drop $150 on a razor, using shaving cream, stretch skin, shave at 30 degrees.... smoothest shave ever. It is just that easy. The straights will be flying off the AOS shelves... then people coming a back all bloodied in a few days... Ummm, I think this $150 razor is defective..... (You know, becuase I heard TI is having some QA issues... )

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Yeah, I was excited about the article until I read it and saw that he forgot the two most important things to do before you shave:

1) hone/ strop
2) build lather

I can't imagine what an awful shave this guy must have gotten without those 2.

Originally Posted by jockeys

Yeah, I was excited about the article until I read it and saw that he forgot the two most important things to do before you shave:

1) hone/ strop
2) build lather

I can't imagine what an awful shave this guy must have gotten without those 2.

Did you really have that much faith in Esquire? The magazine was great 30-40 years ago(and before that), but now it's just hurrendous. This article is a proof. There's no real research behind it(otherwise the author would have found this place ), looks like it was just thrown together.

I like classic style magazine much better and highly recommend it for anyone who is as much into quality clothing as they are into straight razors here.(not affiliated with them or anything)