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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveW View Post
    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.
    Thank you for telling about a real "Two Razor Bob" - for want of a better name.
    If you could find out the rest of his routine (soap, brush and other support) it would be great, we don't want to spook him with too much attention.

    My fix is to pick up serviceable razors in the under $20 category - mostly Hardware Store and Barber Supply brands made in Germany during the 20's and 30's. I clean them up enough to be presentable since what I want to do is work on my honing fix. My own razors just need refreshing once and a while and I'm very happy with my results I know I need to practice. And I don't see myself bread knifing and re-honing the same razor to a nub for that practice.

    And I know how it goes...

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    Two razor bob's routine is extremely limited because he's also a vegan. So he won't buy badger brushes and he won't buy leather strops. He's got a synthetic brush that he describes as marginal (i don't know what it is, maybe it's an omega or something - he said it wasn't expensive) and he maintains his razors with iron oxide on balsa because he can't use a leather strop and thus far, I think maybe he got a piece of neoprene strop at one point and decided he liked the iron oxide on balsa better. He and I are cheap about some things and we got our 0.1 iron oxide from a pigment supplier - 4 ounces of pigment or something for $9. The difference is that I don't use it, and I haven't managed to be nearly as cheap on a consistent basis - just with items that are consumables (powders, etc).

    Not sure what he's using for soap, but something cheap, too, maybe a drug store cream. It's apparent when talking to him that he likes the fact that the straight isn't transient junk to be thrown away, but it's more function and less recreation to him as far as I can tell.

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    The stropping without out leather sounds tough - does you use the iron oxide every day?

    I had read this article last year when I stumbled on it.

    Recently I reached out to the author to see how he was doing, I will let you know if he responds. From his web site it looks like his Hart does not get a lot of work. I only add this because his theme was less stuff to buy and throw away.

    We can all learn something from those who push the boundaries of both excess and minimalist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MJC View Post
    The stropping without out leather sounds tough - does you use the iron oxide every day?

    I had read this article last year when I stumbled on it.

    Recently I reached out to the author to see how he was doing, I will let you know if he responds. From his web site it looks like his Hart does not get a lot of work. I only add this because his theme was less stuff to buy and throw away.

    We can all learn something from those who push the boundaries of both excess and minimalist.

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    Yeah, iron oxide every day as the stropping. That makes a biting edge to me, one that causes weepers, but he said it's been no problem for him.

    I think the parker razor might be the one that he uses.

    If I had to go minimalist, I'd still want at least two brushes, one good strop with a linen, a good razor and a barber hone. With that, i could get along indefinitely, but I wouldn't have been able to use a razor hone and stay short of the razor's edge with the razor hone at the outset. That said, an NOS strop with a vintage linen cost me $45 with a razor hone a while ago, and I think the $25 badger brushes on ebay are very good - the ones from china, as long as it's not a stiff grade of badger that's in them. My favorite razor cost me $65 before the more recent run up in razor prices. That'd put me at $45 + $65 + $50, and I'd budget $10 + shipping for a decent soap (soap's cheaper to use than cream, esp. if you leave soap in the razor). That's still $180, which is tough to get people to eat at the outset, and there's no way most newbies would use a razor hone just shy of the edge, either - they'd hone right through the edge and find something awfully uncomfortable.

    Powders are OK, but I'm getting tired of either putting them in pastes or finding iron oxide or chromium oxide in hard to clean places (let alone on my hands), and I don't want loose diamonds somewhere that they could contaminate my strop or linen.

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    gssixgun has this great thread/experiment that helped me start on maintaining my own razors:

    http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...xperiment.html

    Of course he has that leather thing going for him so I don't know how that would help the Vegan 2-Razor shaver.
    But it is a great read and worth the time.

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    He could do that. He does have a small gaggle of woodworking stones to and through a naniwa snow white, though, so he's covered pretty much up to the pigment point.

    That's not helpful for someone who isn't a woodworker, though - and to someone else who was vegan or really going bottom of the barrel budget, one of the combination king stone small sizes and a couple of flat pieces of balsa with paste of pigment would pretty much do it. If the iron oxide as perceived to be a problem for the ultra cheap, honing could be done on a bare flat piece of balsa or one with newspaper or something on it.

    There's so many ways we *could* do it but choose not to, and I'm in that category, too for woodworking. I don't use the stones for razoring for the most part, and I don't use them for woodworking for the most part. I must have 50 stones that have a woodworking purpose, but what pleases me the most is to use tools with plain carbon steel and then use a single washita and a bare leather paddle strop to do all of my woodworking with very few exceptions. I keep buying stones, though....

    ... just got a gok 20k in the mail this week. Two razor bob and I have different philosophies in practice!

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