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

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

Well, I don't consider myself a minimalist, but I have been more or less shaving with the same straight razor 6 days a week for around 2 years, (with the exception of half a dozen shaves or so)

This is more out of laziness than anything else, I live alone, so the razor is always magically just where I left it the previous day.

The razor in question is a Dovo Master's, it's certainly not my nicest razor, there is nothing special about it, but it gives me a nice shave with no fuss.

As I'm writing, my mind has wandered to the first ever razor, it was a Wilkinson Sword, "Sticky" , bought in 1974 or 1975, I shaved with this razor for 20 years or so and I still have it.

mini what?



yeah i get it, can't do it, living/working/driving junk/old/reused stuff as i do drives the redundancy urge of multiple spares/partsdonors/incasethatonefails/cansellitfor$ifneeded functionalities of my add brains and hoardish is more my speed

not to derail your thread, i'll watch with interest from the other side. carry on.

I remember reading a post by a man who'd been using one razor, one strop, and one barber's hone for almost ten years.

I'm currently trying to cut down on my stuff so that it becomes as close to minimal as I can endure. I should end up with 5 razors, 1 kamisori, 1 barber's hone, 1 pasted strop, 1 double sided strop. It still sounds like quite a lot though, but when I read about some of the people on here who've been in this hobby for decades, and have accumulated hundreds of straights, strops and hones in the process, I feel slightly better about how little I have.

I only use one...at a time! Ok, Ok, I will admit to using two for a shave occasionally.

I would have loved to keep it to a minimum. My wallet would have loved it more. But since December I have purchased 4 razors, 10 soaps, 3 brushes, 3 shave bowls, 3 after shaves, 2 strops, 2 pre shave oils, 1 pre shave cream, 1 alum block, and 1 scuttle........

I know I have a problem.

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.

One razor for me - an Abram Brooksbank 6/8 Sheffield.

For about three weeks. That was a while ago. I overcame that handicap. It just didn't dawn on me to just buy three or four right out of the gate.

So many razors, so little time.

Only one brand x 10 Blades