Thread: Contribute or Be Quiet?

Originally Posted by Kees

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

We could call it "Infidels" or something.

X

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

Originally Posted by rtaylor61

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

Sound great RT...... This should keep everybody happy.



Terry

Can't speak for others here but as far as I'm concerned post away with DE stuff. That's what I usually use through the week due to time constraints. But I LOVE my straights on the weekends, days off, and holidays.

Tom