Thread: why do people use razor for each day of week

I don't use a different razor every day but I have may shave ready razors to suit my feelings on that particular day - sometimes I just want a change.
As for 7 day sets - I don't see the point now. maybe in the past it was good to have seven due to honing reasons, but as that is something I enjoy, It doesn't apply to me.
I'm not one to believe the theory of resting the edge to be honest. I haven't noticed much difference. I think that it is just a reason for companies to sell more razors!

See 7 days of the week 7 razor set I like that, and I like well rested razors wouldn't want them to get tired ya know...

Now it also is the best excuse for RAD too, because every time you get one razor, you have to buy 6 more to keep in multples of 7 RIGHT ????

I now have 77 shave ready razors, OCD mixed with RAD

And I just bought one new razor

In the old days a well heeled gentleman wouldn't be caught dead without a seven day set, usually with ivory scales and the very wealth with sterling silver scales. Kind of like owning a Rolex watch now.

the sterling would have to be just for prestige, cause I imagine those handles would make for a hell of a balance problem.

Red

Well aren't all the ornate aspects of razors just for show? So long as the blade shaves well (and you can shave with it), the rest is unimportant.

I like having lots of different kinds of razors because they each give a different shave. Some I like more than others. I'm going to pick the seven best after I'm all finished restoring, and put the rest in a shadow box.

Holli, I disagree, everybody knows, or at least wives should, that different handle materials balance differently depending on atmospheric conditions and because of wood variance sometimes fancy inlays, spacers and pins are needed to compensate.

Red

I feel safe to say it in this group, I'm obsessed. I need to try every razor I see. I stay up at night thinking that some razor I saw in SOTD, or in some other post *must* shave better than every razor I have. So far I'm right, every shave has been better than the last. Couldn't be the technique, it's got to be the razor <g>

I'm new to this and I am realizing just how addicting this is. Pretty cool how something i've been doing for 30 years on a daily basis has taken a turn and is now really enjoyable. I'm glad my inquiry sparked a good exchange of dialougeq
joe

After finding this post I started to think about this question, which by the way, I find very interesting. For one thing, I know as a fact that metals undergo small change in properties under perturbations. This is undeniably real and can be measured. This is very reminiscent of the Coriolis effect in toilet flushing (really more how they tested the memory of water in the experiments at MIT). Having said that, the seven day period seems to be arbitrary, why not three days? I tend to think, as pointed out earlier in the thread, that there are marketing reasons involved. Seven days seem like a convenient way to do a rotation, and some may find, buying 30 razors or 356 razors, a bit excessive, and contingent to uneven month length, leap years, etc…. ;-) The rotation would probably work the same if you had three razors labeled one, two and three, but it would be harder to remember what razor you used last and what razor you need to use next, as there would not be a direct association between the razors and a real event (in this case the day of the week). For the sake of generality, imagine a barber that has ten clients a day (I do not think that this is a large number for a barber, especially in the old days). If there was any truth to the seven day period in between shaves for a single razor, the barber would need to maintain a total of seventy razors to do his job properly. Notice that the amount of razors would grow if the number of clients increases. Do barbers keep so many razors in their shops? For this reason, I cannot really believe that there is anything special about the seven day period. Can you find any flaws in my analysis?

Al raz.