Thread: The Mach Delivers ?!

Originally Posted by bob

This threads been very interesting, I've had a similar experience tonight. Airport carry-on only, proper prep and a surprisingly good shave from a Mach 3.

I think the preps been a real lesson for me. I have a course beard, and only get 2 shaves out of a Mach if I'm willing to accept the pulling (grandfather shaved twice a day!). It made me realize I never gave cartridges a proper go (not that I'd go back to it regularly - wish I could find granddads cutthroat). While this is the same thing as a lot of people have said, it's also made me think about the passing of shaving knowledge from one generation to the next.

My father has only ever had an electric shaver, and when I got my first bit of bumfluff I tried to copy. Painful experiences, rash, etc so months later I decided to figure out cartridge shaving. It was a steep learning curve, and I still have bad habits. I don't know if it's just me, but most of my mates have said similar things ie the old man handed a cartridge and said 'go with the grain' and that's it. Are these 'package deals' resulting in knowledge only being kept in these communities? Did you guys get a guiding hand on how to use a cartridge the first time?

There's a picture of me with my dad, our faces coated in shaving cream. I think I'm about four years old. That was the extent of my shaving education. It was about twelve years before I had any fuzz to speak of, sixteen before I really needed to shave. By that time, any four year old's memories of "how to shave" were long gone.

I have a great relationship with my dad, but this is one area where I plan to make a big deal of teaching my boys to shave as a coming into manhood opportunity, and not leaving them to try and figure it out themselves.

Peace,
Jim