Thread: Anyone so minimalist using only one straight razor everyday???

Originally Posted by Ferrarimondial

Well, right now, I'm only using a DE, but I do use both sides. Actually, I plan on trying a straight here pretty soon. I've got an old Wade & Butcher I'm sending to Lynn for honning.

good choice on the wade and butcher for a straight just be careful if Lynn hones it for you just looking at it can nick you. he's good.

I'm so minimalist that somedays I don't use any razors at all!

I'm down to eight custom razors now and would love to make it only two. But damn all the builders just keep posting stuff I need

Originally Posted by AntiqueHoosier

Any Hardcore Minimalists here? Tell me about your sole blade.

I want to be minimalist, but probably not bad enough. The past week I have used two Filarmonica 12s and a rose scented artisan soap. I finally got a breakthrough on honing razors a couple of weeks ago and am experimenting with a two sided felt strop, one side with .50 micron spray and the other side with .25 micron. I'm hoping that by adding 10 strokes on either side to my stropping regimen I can extend the life of my hone job.

I have three straight razors, but mostly use my DOVO with a 5/8 stainless #41 blade and plastic imitation mother-of-pearl scales. Easy to maintain, works well and I'm very familiar with it so nine times out of ten it's what I choose.

I only have and use one straight. It's a T.R. Cadmans & Sons Bengall Imperial full hollow.

A friend showed me his grandfathers straight razor (now this friend is 80 himself so it's a while ago were talking) It was a rusty piece of junk. I gathered the opinion from the forum that it was restorable, so restore we did. It was honed and repined by Oz.



Although many do - I don't believe in razor bigamy or razor adultery This one gives me fantastic shaves!


Creams on the other hand…

I've thought about this quite a bit.

No, I don't actually only shave with one razor. If I were to go minimalist though, it would be a pair rather than a single razor. But that's mostly because I've got two pairs that I could happily use forevermore.

Were the quality of the shave the only thing that mattered to me about it, it would be these two.



Heljestrand MK 31's in tortoise shell, made around 1910. They're beautiful. They're fantastic shavers.

But the thing is, I care more about the history behind them than the quality of the shave (so long as it's better than merely good). Based on history and the fact that they came to me in a field officer's kit, it's these.



Made by Martin-Guillaume Biennais (they're both faintly stamped with 'Au Singe Violet' -- the Purple Monkey -- which was his store in Paris), goldsmith to Napoleon. From around 1810.

It's the field kit that really does it for me. Of all the nécessaire de voyage I've seen, this is the only one that really suits me. It's got the razors, a scissors, a mirror and a slot for a strop (which, when he's feeling better, I'd like to have Neil Miller make a strop for). No bottles and button hooks, no cuticle tools or files. Just the items I'd need to shave.

I really could be happy using nothing else.

But I don't have to be.

(And amusingly enough, it was AntiqueHoosier who really got me started on this whole kick by selling me my first Really Interesting Old Razor, a pre-Sheaf Works Greaves & Sons).

My old Boy Scout Scoutmaster is 90 years old now and when he joined the Marine Corp during WWII he took 'his' straight razor to Boot Camp. He had to send it home!

I've talked to him about this and he said he, his father, and brothers all only had ONE STRAIGHT RAZOR!!!!

As I believe my good friend pinklather has said; Beware of a man with One Gun as he probably knows how to use it!

As it stands right now, I havent contracted RAD (yet) and therefore I still only own 1 razor. A Dovo Prima, Full Hollow Silver Steel, 5/8" with Ebony Handle. Took it off some dude's hands who's wife didnt aprove of him shaving this way as a noob and I've used it ever since.

My two MK31's need a rescale job. Wish Genui e Tortoise was an option. I love the pairs having bought and sold multiples. If you still have that old Greaves, post a pic. I vaguely remember that but ovet 800 razors have passed through my hands!

Originally Posted by Voidmonster

I've thought about this quite a bit.

No, I don't actually only shave with one razor. If I were to go minimalist though, it would be a pair rather than a single razor. But that's mostly because I've got two pairs that I could happily use forevermore.

Were the quality of the shave the only thing that mattered to me about it, it would be these two.



Heljestrand MK 31's in tortoise shell, made around 1910. They're beautiful. They're fantastic shavers.

But the thing is, I care more about the history behind them than the quality of the shave (so long as it's better than merely good). Based on history and the fact that they came to me in a field officer's kit, it's these.



Made by Martin-Guillaume Biennais (they're both faintly stamped with 'Au Singe Violet' -- the Purple Monkey -- which was his store in Paris), goldsmith to Napoleon. From around 1810.

It's the field kit that really does it for me. Of all the nécessaire de voyage I've seen, this is the only one that really suits me. It's got the razors, a scissors, a mirror and a slot for a strop (which, when he's feeling better, I'd like to have Neil Miller make a strop for). No bottles and button hooks, no cuticle tools or files. Just the items I'd need to shave.

I really could be happy using nothing else.

But I don't have to be.

(And amusingly enough, it was AntiqueHoosier who really got me started on this whole kick by selling me my first Really Interesting Old Razor, a pre-Sheaf Works Greaves & Sons).