Thread: Seven day sets... really??

Hmmm... well I tried shaving every day when I started with the straights and it didn't go so well. But my technique is far better now and my edges are sharper. I'll try it again, since everyone seems to find it okay...

Second thought... the Sheffield seven day sets may have been for a manservant to use on his aristocratic employer. So the person shaved wouldn't care so much about the fun of trying the different blades and whether his last honing was up to par. I'm guessing that the whole box would have been brought to the barber once a month or somesuch for touch-ups on the stones. Having a large set would have minimized the number of such trips and the labeling would have kept the butler (or whomever) on the correct rotation.

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I am up to about 20 razors. I shave almost every day. I find it to be quiet time to myself.

Originally Posted by jerrybyers

P.S. I have been drooling over some of those 7-day sets. The W&B four pack is amazing.

Might you have any links to the W&B four pack you refer to? I'd love to see a pic... not familiar with it, myself.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

Back in the day, you'd have had to be pretty well off to have a seven day set, so they were probably something of a status symbol. Perhaps akin to having fancy china and silverware?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I have two 7 day sets, but cannot bring myself to shave with the same razor day in and day out! No fun! They sit in the gun safe! ....get it on....Tom

In the end, that's why I don't buy the 7 day sets... a lot of the fun is in the experimenting and the variations in the various razors (for me, at least).

You need deep pockets to go for the W&B 4 pack .... Item number: 140605378306 ... if I had the $ to spare I'd be in there bidding, the BIN is ridiculous. Anyway, I also feel that it is boring to have these sets to shave with. Same razor every day ... that is why, as someone said before, many times you find these sets with one or two blades well used and 5 pristine.

I shave every day as well. I have a fast growing beard, but I do it more for the enjoyment. Before straights when I used a cartridge I would get terrible razor burn and spots on my neck so I didn't shave very often. Since switching to straights my face has never been happier.

Personally I've never really like the run of the mill 7-day sets (Solingen ones). I did however finally pick up one of those 7-day sheffield oldie sets (probably around 1830s) that has the one handle and 7-interlockable blades. Really can't wait for this one to get in and restored. It is more of a collectors item for me, but I also would like it to have 7 identical razors to test all my finishers on.

Yes, back in the day the 7 day set was made for the upper crust of society. That's why so many of them tended to be scaled with Ivory and other better materials. later on they made them as a tourist thing and you see many of them as generic Solingen Razors. Still quality of course but not the same as the ones from the early 20th cent. and late 19th.

Originally Posted by august11231

Might you have any links to the W&B four pack you refer to? I'd love to see a pic... not familiar with it, myself.

W&B four pack

I shave everyday. I enjoy it and it's the only way I'd get through a rotation in less than a year.