Thread: Too Many Razors!

[QUOTE=nicknbleeding;1267437Never too many. Only not enough days in the year to shave with them all.[/QUOTE]

A good excuse to live longer!

In this time my work is too busy. And when I honing every weekend, my wife a bit angry. I think she's right. So in this reason I trying to control my RAD...
My personal opinion, that a men doesn't need more than 3-4 straights, and this is an amount which is more easily maintained.

This is just my opinion, but I think a guy only NEEDS as many as he uses to shave at one time. One. Unless your skill is supreme and you can use one in each hand. You see razors all the time that were obviously used their throughout their entire existence. NOS razors obviously are used slightly less (humorous way of saying not at all). In my own use I could use one for the rest of my life. I'm a minimalist you could say. My thought is I have to strop it when I use it. I have to hone it when necessary. If you have dozens in rotation you likely spend that accumulated time you would have spent in maintenance in one shot instead of spread out over each shave.

Originally Posted by jrabi

In this time my work is too busy. And when I honing every weekend, my wife a bit angry. I think she's right. So in this reason I trying to control my RAD...
My personal opinion, that a men doesn't need more than 3-4 straights, and this is an amount which is more easily maintained.

Hahaha...try to ask her why she needs to many pairs of shoes?

That's a good place to start....

Originally Posted by JazzWillie

This is just my opinion, but I think a guy only NEEDS as many as he uses to shave at one time. One. Unless your skill is supreme and you can use one in each hand. You see razors all the time that were obviously used their throughout their entire existence. NOS razors obviously are used slightly less (humorous way of saying not at all). In my own use I could use one for the rest of my life. I'm a minimalist you could say. My thought is I have to strop it when I use it. I have to hone it when necessary. If you have dozens in rotation you likely spend that accumulated time you would have spent in maintenance in one shot instead of spread out over each shave.

In theory I agree. But I like the variation.

I forsee a 365 day set....plus another set for leap years....

Originally Posted by Phrank

Hahaha...try to ask her why she needs to many pairs of shoes?

That's a good place to start....

:-) ...and bags! :-)
Yes it's true, but I have a collection watches, fountain pens and books in addition to the razor. Oh, and on weekends need help to my kids in learning ...

RAD can bite very hard. I figure I've got it under control if I can keep my collection to under 120 razors. I don't turn over my collection as much as I used to but the total number doesn't really seem to come down.

Do those that have been afflicted a while find that your collection has refined itself over time? Selling off blades that you are not so passionate about and retaining "special" ones or is a razor a razor? Granted it is easy to rationalize ownership of a "collection" as an investment but how many honestly view their habit in that light?

My father has played with cars for most of his life. He has owned some spectacular and very expensive cars but never had any real attachment to any of them. They came and went regularly...owning up to a dozen at a time. I doubt he lost money on more than a very few. They were just an investment except for one '32 Ford Cabriolet that he has owned for years.

I have collected for many many years before using them. Once I joined her I started to be more picky about my choice. I have quite a few I want to sell . Ones that don't appeal to me or finding a better example of one. But even with that I don't see myself ever getting down to under 150. I love variety. A razor that once didn't not suite me now does. Taste change or better yet Broaden.