Thread: Straight Razor Shaver Ages.

I'm so old if I had one more wrinkle in my forehead I could screw my hat on!

20 years old here. Like a lot of people have posted, I'm into older/vintage things. I started when I did a google search and found SRP. Ordered my first razor on my birthday when I turned 20 (February 6) and haven't looked back since. Trying to convert my roomies now.

27 years old. I started with a str8 last December.

17, been using a straight for more then a year and a half.





I've always been a wanna-be bad-ass which I guess is where the straight razor urge came from. Still haven't convinced anyone I'm a bad ass though.

I am soon to be 55 (but in my mind I am about 24).

I started out with a Gillette Slim Adjustable, a pack of drug store blades, a new Ever Ready brush and a puck of Williams soap that my dad gave me. I always had a stiff beard and I did not get alot of instructions on how to use my razor. So I hated it and had a chewed up face for 4 or 5 years until I went off to college in 1974 and grew a beard.

But I did use an uncle's old Robeson Sure Edge to trim my neck line, and my barber would keep it what I thought was sharp for me on occasion. Little did I know what a real shave ready blade could feel like.

Like so many guys here about my age I grew up and went to work, shaved off the beard with that same old Gillette and probably used the left over K Mart blades, then migrated onto the latest multi blade razor and canned gel for the next 25 years but still I would use my soap and brush half of the time because that was the only part that I liked about shaving at all. Shaving for me was simply a chore that I didn't have time for.

Just a few years ago a friend gave me some feather blades along with a few others and polished up my old Gillette and told me how to use them. Man! If I had only known. Then a progression back to the straight.

Now for me it is something that I look forward to and not just a chore to be rushed through in the shower every morning. I still have my old razors and I still use the DE's and have a couple of SE's that I love, but the wonderful straights and the results that I get from them have been great. I hope to be able to use them for the next 55 years.

Will N.

I am soon to be 28

I'm 45 and just picked up SR shaving back in Nov. I've been wet shaving, however, for about three years

Soon to be 28, started straight razor shaving in last December.

I started just before my 40th birthday!

I am a hair under 24 currently. I started last February. I walked into an AOS shop and was amazed to hear that people could actually enjoy a shave! A quick look around led me to the straight cabinet. The manager saw me looking and informed me that they were the ultimate shave but took time to master. I am a fan of doing things by hand, and other antiquated items, like fountain pens, but the only thing that keeps me shaving with a straight is the shave!