Thread: Contribute or Be Quiet?

Thanks for the input guys. This is your forum and I am a member, so I don't want to go against the grain on this!

Alan: An electric? Hey, I do have my pride!

Rich: Thanks. I made it to 45 without being called a DERP!

RT

Ya know. I think I'm reconsidering my answer. The simple fact is that except for the razor of choice, most wetshavers must use the same accesories for completing the task. Obviously, seeing what other guys are using or mixing together is some of what the SOTD forum is for. I can certainly look in the razor forum for information on a specific razor, right?

So, Randy, have at it man!

Originally Posted by xChris

Ya know. I think I'm reconsidering my answer. The simple fact is that except for the razor of choice, most wetshavers must use the same accesories for completing the task. Obviously, seeing what other guys are using or mixing together is some of what the SOTD forum is for. I can certainly look in the razor forum for information on a specific razor, right?

So, Randy, have at it man!

You mean you voted against me???

That's the whole point in asking. I'm planning to get serious about taking and posting pics again, and I don't want to "rock the boat" in any way. Of course of days I use a straight, the answer is obvious!

RT

Your contributions are always welcome! Keep them coming!

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

You mean you voted against me???

Randy,

Sorry, I had one of these...

Who cares? I am stickly a straight shaver, but I go onto the DE forums and have learned alot from those guys about different brushes, soaps, creams, techniques, etc. They use hot towel wraps and many of the same techniques. Of course, they can't tell you how to hone or strop, but that's why there's this forum. I am happy to learn from anybody!

If you can do what you say you can, then it ain't braggin'
Daren

Originally Posted by Kees

We might want a forum for shaves of a different kind..

We could call it "Infidels" or something.

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I voted for straight shaves only, because there are a lot of other places where there's more interest and expertise on DE's.

I view SOTD as having two, no three, make that four primary purposes:

1) low-level advertising. I use X and it works great! kind of thing. This is one of the reasons I stick with the SOTD, I'm deeply in love with my Rooney and my Harris/T&H/Gold Dachs soaps, and the Harris face milk. And the handamerican strop. And I want people to know.

2) how people are getting it done. honing, denickifying, etc. Here is where the end results of the threads in the razors, honing, strops, and soaps forums hits the road. And not just the "official recommendations" kind of thing that shows up in the honing forums, because that is sanitized to keep the newbies on track. I generally don't recommend the arkansas stones for example, because there's more shared knowledge about the Norton. And I won't recommend the Rooney to a newbie either because it's a lot of money to sink in if you don't know you're gonna stay. In the past I've included honing information to my SOTD so people can see what the blades were honed on, and especially what they were finished on - different razors get different finishes.

3) triage for shaving problems -- check the SOTD threads and you'll find probably 1/3 of the posts are followups for people having problems with a razor that isn't quite right, or lathering or prep problems, or hints and tips that aren't worth a whole thread by themselves.

4) encouragement for newbies -- see, people really are shaving like this, even other recently-newbies!

For most of this, discussion of non-straights is just noise in the signal. Unless they're using them to clean up their straight shave, in which case this is a useful thing to know from a diagnostics standpoint.

Originally Posted by mparker762

denickifying

That's a nice word

So I think I've found a good compromise. On days I shave with a straight, I'll list the razor. And days that I don't, I'll omit the razor. If' I'm posting pics, no big deal to leave the razor out. Sound acceptable?

RT