Originally Posted by
DaveW
One of the folks I've gotten into shaving has two razors, because someone else gave him one. I sold him one for $15, and he's got iron oxide and chromium oxide. He hasn't bought anything else and he doesn't use anything else. He would fit in the mythical category. He likes shaving because he thinks he's giving a big up yours to gillette by doing it. I don't think he loves the shaving like we do, though. I love the shaving the same way I love eating a fresh donut, or getting my back scratched by a first date with nice hands, nice perfume and long nails - not that I can remember much what that's like.
I don't know if anyone else shares the same view as me, but I don't need to give gillette an up yours, they just make shaving seem like loading the dishwasher or something. I just wouldn't want to do it any other way than the straights, I want all of the sharp edge experience I can get anywhere - kitchen knives, scissors, whatever. I hone my razors about once every 6 months (due to proper use of a vintage linen) so I don't even get to use the stones I slobbered over, but I still have them in case the world turns upside down sometime and all of the vintage linens that I've hoarded get vaporized by aliens or something.
You know how it goes.