Quote Originally Posted by Wintchase View Post
Communist.... Heretic..... Naw, just joshiing.. Sure, you can get bbs with a mach.. We shave with st8ts for other reasons to complex to list, although i am sure others will chime in... For me it brings me back to a time when pocket watches,pipes, and a good straight were man's best friends... It allows me to step back from my thechnical present with ipods, ipads, and cable tv and sit down and watch (from memory) my grandfather shave with a straight, don his fedora and cane while heading off for the day. It brings back times when a handshake was firm ,calloused, andwas a man's bond... So enjoy your mach my friend..for me; i will stick with my pinoud and straights.
To be clear all of these are also reasons for me enjoying the str8. The quality of shave is my question here having clearly not yet reached the level of str8 god to be able to say which is better. Am hoping people here will chime in on the end result quality of shave differences. People who have recently reverted and made an honest comparison.

By the way, Pinoud works either way and one should use the same products they are comfortable with outside the razor itself to make an honest comparison. I will never be without Proraso or Martin De Candre