Thread: Barber shaves in the Mpls news

So I have a strop, shaving soap, a brush, and a straight razor. The razor may be blunt, or it may be in the hands of an incompetent - at any rate, my first experience trying to shave with it did not go well. When I try to reenact what I see in a Youtube demonstration video, it all gets a bit Sweeney Todd. Is there still a TC Straight Razor Club in existence? I could really use some experienced advice...

Check out the meets section to see if there is one in your area. Also, see who lives in your area and then contact that member and see if he might help you out.

There are a quite a few of us in the TC, what kind of help do you need. I'll try my best

Good read...been an article like that in Toronto awhile back....makes me laugh though, the horror surrounding the straight razor....gotta love it....makes me feel like such a rebel living life on the edge!! (see what I did there '-))

Yea, it is catching on, even old isolated Thunder Bay has at least one barber doing shavette shaves in a local mall shop. There are likely a few more if I were to poke around. I don't think you can use a real straight razor in an Ontario barber shop. Even the guy doing the shavette shaves did not know it was not a real straight razor but oddly enough the girl who cut my hair did know the difference and has hers framed at home.

Bob

Yes...my old barber in Toronto used to shave with a straight, then the new laws came in and it's all shavettes, no blood born contamination...those poor lonely jars of Barbicide are reduced to combs and scissors now...but yes, most don't know that they are essentially a different type of disposable razor.

I have a shavette, tried it, not for me, don't like them...

Has anyone else noticed that in the article there is a "beaver-bristle brush" mentioned?

Originally Posted by McBrautigam

Has anyone else noticed that in the article there is a "beaver-bristle brush" mentioned?

Now that would be interesting.

Bob