Thread: Razor rotation

I'll start. I have enough to use a different one every done for 11 days, but I keep a couple in the "to be refreshed/honed" pile...so about 9 are used, different one each day, usually.

I have a clear rotation. Each day the one behind the last one used moves to the starting gate. It is a mix of 5/8 & 6/8 razors. I want a 7/8 one day to try on for size. I do like a 6/8 due to the extra heft.

I don't have this many [or as nice] but I like this idea. Post #7

http://straightrazorpalace.com/razor...ml#post1507719

I have 40 or so razors. Everything is between 5/8 and 15/16ths, several wedges, some quarter and half hollows, bunch of framebacks, 80% of them are Sheffields, some Swedes, two Solingen and a couple of Kamisori. I'm always testing stuff so everything gets love, this is the reason I cut down from 80 +\-.

I currently have 9 razors that are shave ready and in my rotation, but seem to keep adding more...
I have a LOT of blades that I am in the process of restoring (probably about 25 in various stages from rusted and damaged to only in need of honing) and will add some into the mix as they are finished and sell or give away the rest.
Out of the ones I currently use, two are wedges or quarter grinds and the rest are full hollow. Three are 6/8 or larger and the rest are 5/8. There is no pattern or rhyme or reason to my collection, I just picked up razors that I liked
As for choosing the razor on an given day...thebigspender nailed it!

Well here is my 6 razor rotation literally.............5 German gals and 1 All American gal!

Just got my 5th razor today, I started out using 5/8 Boker, bought a really nice 5/8 Puma from Badgister, then got a vintage 6/8 Spartacus, traded for a 6/8 Aust. Found myself using the Aust and Puma the most. I purchased a vintage 5/8 F.W. Engels for a great price only used it once because it feels too small for my hands, might get rid of it. Still rotate in my Edwin Jagger DE, those are great shavers.

My new razor a 7/8 Aust.

To think all this started by me sending Joe Edson my great grandfather's W&B to restore because I really was interested to se how real men shaved.

I have 7 Bokers which form my main rotation. I keep them all in individual sleeves made from a silicon treated gun sock. I can't see which razor is which, so I use whichever one comes out of the Tupperware box, lucky dip style. That one then goes into a different box, and so on, until all 7 have been used. Then it starts again. I break it up now and again by using one of my Spikes, Revisor, Natch or Osgar etc. Oh the agony of choice!

I shave with whatever I like the look at when I'm grabbing a razor to shave with. No system involved.

Originally Posted by johnmrson

I shave with whatever I like the look at when I'm grabbing a razor to shave with. No system involved.

Yep. Thats how i do it.

But i also get to shave with other people's razors after restoring them.
I've a brand new Dovo and Boker that i bought in January this year, and have only used each one twice.
I've got one on the stones now.
( thats for tomorrow morning)
And another getting fitted for new shoes.