Thread: "My First Razor..."

(In honor of my getting off my butt and actually buying one) while waiting for my razor to arrive, I thought that it might be cool to get some "first razor" stories. (I've seen some scattered here and there throughout the forums.) Where you got it, who owned it previously ... from "custom damascus" to "worn paint scraper".

-Ivan

Thanks for hijacking my thread's topic.

Originally Posted by yan3751

(In honor of my getting off my butt and actually buying one) while waiting for my razor to arrive, I thought that it might be cool to get some "first razor" stories. (I've seen some scattered here and there throughout the forums.) Where you got it, who owned it previously ... from "custom damascus" to "worn paint scraper".

-Ivan

My first one I bought in an antique store back in the 1960's. I must have lucked out, because I don't recall going through agony getting it keen, other that stropping it a lot. I used it ocassionally for a few years until I sliced the tip of my nose moving from my left side to the right side of my face one day and not paying enough attention to the altitude of the razor as it passed the fleshy part of my nose tip. That bled like heck and for two weeks I had a scab that made me cross-eyed. I laid the straight razor away for about eight years after that.

Here is my "second razor" story. I got a Wade & Butcher Wedge that I couldn't sharpen. Lynn however was able to get it "razor" sharp. Well I took it away on vacation with me. Well I take my shower then lather up and am standing butt naked while I am shaving with this super sharp blade. All of a sudden the there is noise outside the door ( We went away with our 2 kids and my sister, her husband and her 2 kids) I quickly reach out to hold the door closed and I sliced my right cheek really good. Now I'm bleeding like a stuck pig running around the bathroom naked trying to stop the bleeding. Trust me it was not a pretty site. Yelling don't come in. It's been three weeks and the scar is mending nicely.

P.S. When I told Lynn he thought it was very funny. Hummmmm

Reading these, it just adds more force to the argument that one is more likely to cut themselves with a razor when it is not on their face.

Originally Posted by uthed

until I sliced the tip of my nose moving from my left side to the right side of my face one day and not paying enough attention to the altitude of the razor as it passed the fleshy part of my nose tip.

Ouch ... that almost makes my eyes water just thinking about it.

Originally Posted by RichZ

I quickly reach out to hold the door closed and I sliced my right cheek really good.

That would have been one of those embarrassing emergency room trips. (Just caught myself - given the context, I'm not exactly sure which "right cheek" you sliced.)

I do suspect, however, that incidents such as these definitely make the razor involved "memorable" from that point forward.

-Ivan

Rich, I was laughing with you....not at you.....lol. Lynn

I bought my first razor, a unstamped Dovo, about a year ago next month in a cutlery shop at a shopping mall in Sacramento. This was before I found the SRP. I was sitting in my living room looking at my great grand fathers razor I keep in a case (due to poor care it's beyond use), and I thought to myself "self, I wonder if I could shave with one of those. I wonder what it would be like?". Shortly there after I bought the razor and a strop.I found my way here (or there, the original site). Thank God! Now a year later and a bunch of razors later, I,ve learned the right way to shave, learned the basics of honing and now i use nothing but a straight. Thanks guys for the knowledge you pass on!

Lynn,

I have told several people that story at work and they were purple with laughter. They said I was lucky I only cut my cheek. lmao.

Rich

PS Once again thanks for helping me get my now favorite razor.