Thread: Some questions for younger shavers

Originally Posted by Red Oktober

Gillette make it easy to decide by sending free razors to kids who are about to turn 16, that's how I got my Mach 3.

+1 same thing happened to me, used it for 10 years afterwards, only switched to a straight last year. I'm 26.

Started shaving around 14 with a Mach 3, I am now 21. I started with a strait about two years ago, the thing was dull as can be, but I perservired through the cuts. I have tried the Fushion but still think the Mach 3 is the best disposable because the blades are spaced nicely apart so they dont clog. I am currently using a DE Gillette Adjustable (which so far is like a cheese grater on my neck) while I referbish my straight.

25, started with a sensor excel, switched to a mach 3, then straights.

I watched a woman last week pick up two razors she wanted to buy for her husband and she yells "Hey Marge, do I get the one with the engine?"

Started shaving at 14 with a disposable razor every other week or so, found out abouut Straights on wikipedia when I was...I think 16 or 17? Picked up a shavette, later moved onto a proper one, haven't touched anything else since.

I'm 23. I started shaving with cheap BIC-type disposables, and of course I loathed the time I spent shaving every day. A year or so back, my father became a Gillette Fusion proselyte - you know, the battery-powered razor/clitoral stimulator - and tried to get me on the bandwagon. The shave was good enough to ensure that I would never again be satisfied with non-swiveling, non-vibrating, only-double-bladed safety razors, but the price was unsustainable (about $25/fortnight, I seem to recall). I was also still high on my first reading of Walden some months prior (digression: "high," yes, but if you read that book right, you never come down). Once I began thinking seriously about the ecology and Economy of shaving, it became clear that disposable razors are simply not a real solution to the "problem" of beards.

After researching my options, it was obvious that there was only one real alternative. Everything I read said that straights beat all other methods, by all measures but convenience and learning curve. I didn't consider that a compromise, since I'm always eager not only to learn something new, but to learn how to slow down and do it right.

I'm twenty four, I started with my grandfather's gillette tech and his massive supply of razor blades. He'd buy them by the case when they were on sale. :P

On occasion I've used Bic disposables, just for traveling and stuff. More or less, though, it was just the DE from about 14 or so until I got my first straight. Beleive it or not, I still have some unused razor blades bought in the 80s by my grandfather. That's right, I got nearly ten years out of his supply of blades. :P

My boys started with the Nach 3 before they went Straight. 19 by the way

Originally Posted by Don

My boys started with the Nach 3 before they went Straight. 19 by the way

Hi Don - you started at 19, or your boys did, or you have 19 boys?
thanks

28, started with a DE from my dad and a can of foam, then switched to disposables and electric untill a month or 2 ago