Hey all.

I've been a Straight Shaver for years. I like to take my time with the straight for 2 reasons: the obvious safety reason and more importantly, I enjoy the process so much.

Now that being said, work has been crazy busy so I'm going in earlier and earlier and finding that I don't have time in the wee hours for the straight so I found myself reverting back to the piece of S@!t cartridge razors. I hate them.

I went online and purchased a Merkur 34C and a sample pack of DE blades. My first shave was with a Wilkinson Sword blade. I have to say VERY impressive. With just the weight of the razor and no pressure the hair came off like it wasn't even there. No pulling at all. In fact, after the first stroke or 2 I wasn't sure the blade edge was touching my skin. It was. I got a pretty good shave, not perfectly BBS but as I've been reading here on SRP, there's a learning curve and for sure, my technique is far from ideal. Happy to say that I didn't cut myself and really enjoyed throwing the cartridges in the garbage. WOO HOO.

For the record, I'm definitely NOT giving up my Straights. No way. I now have 2 awesomely manly ways to shave.

BTW - I have 7-10 or so Straights in rotation. Something tells me that I'll soon have a respectable complement of Safety razors in the near future. :-)

Have a great weekend,
Doug
RAD Sufferer