Thread: Hello straight razor virgin fron New York

Hello friend...thank you for the response. I will have to look into the pre shave oil. What I do now is I brush my face with a cheap bore hair brush. I charge it with bath soap like dial or zest, don't use ivory it will burn your face. Anyhow I just brush it on my face and rinse and repeat. I have been using a de ssince I was 15 and I am 53 now. my first razor was a gillete with a black handle. I also have a few gillete crome looking ones. As a matter of fact I just bought my nephew a merkur not a future model for his graduation present. He loved it.

I have been using shaving soap for the last 20 years, never would I use shaving cream out of a can again. I just use Williams shave soap it comes in a box for .89 cents.

Anyhow thanks for the advise.

Originally Posted by pathology101

Hello friend...thank you for the response. I will have to look into the pre shave oil. What I do now is I brush my face with a cheap bore hair brush. I charge it with bath soap like dial or zest, don't use ivory it will burn your face. Anyhow I just brush it on my face and rinse and repeat. I have been using a de ssince I was 15 and I am 53 now. my first razor was a gillete with a black handle. I also have a few gillete crome looking ones. As a matter of fact I just bought my nephew a merkur not a future model for his graduation present. He loved it.

I have been using shaving soap for the last 20 years, never would I use shaving cream out of a can again. I just use Williams shave soap it comes in a box for .89 cents.

Anyhow thanks for the advise.

That is fine. The Williams shave soap will do ya for now. The Merkur is a god razor. I have an old one that is nice. You might have one of the nicer Gillette's also. A really nice one is the Fatboy which is adjustable from 1-9, then there's the Super Speed which has a flair tip on the bottom that you turn to open & close it for replacing the blade. If you look on the bottom side where the blade goes, you will see Gillette & a letter & number. That is the date code for when it was made like my Gillette Fatboy says E1 on it which is 1959, Jan-March.

Hello and Welcome, looks like you are set to Enjoy.

Welcome to the forum.

hello the gillete razor has a h 3 marked on the bottom. maybe you might know what this means?
Have a great night.

yes one shot can kill......especially from the unloaded gun. That is what I always tought my girls when shooting

H3 is 1962, July-Sept
I sent you a pm with the link to the chart but since it was from B&B forum, I didn't show it here but it's the best manufacturing date chart I could find for Gillette.
Can you post pics?

Welcome! I too went from DE to straight. Good advise from others on technique. You'll find the longer blade is hard to do passes in all the directions you may have done with a DE. Also, pressure is much lighter than a DE as well. Angle lower too. That's what I noticed.

I bought my first from SRD, and then my second (my favorite so far, out of four straights I own) I got from the classifieds. Very happy with buying from there, and saved money as well.

The journey begins...

wow thanks that is great born the same year as myself. I will try to learn how to send aaaaaaaand do pictures. I am not very computer or tecknical. My kids tell me I am Amish. I just tell them we use to be until mom shaved her beard off.

Originally Posted by pathology101

wow thanks that is great born the same year as myself. I will try to learn how to send aaaaaaaand do pictures. I am not very computer or tecknical. My kids tell me I am Amish. I just tell them we use to be until mom shaved her beard off.

Ha.ha..........LMAO