Thread: Sick and Shaving. Oh! What to do?

In the olden days before safety razors the SR was the only edge available for shaving. I have been sick for about four weeks now; seemingly unable to rattle the infection...the tragedies of elder years. I have a few single edge safety razors I keep on hand to shave with rather than my SR. How many floating around in this mystic world resort to the safety razor during these periods of illness or do you remain staunch about using your SR. I just can't do it. No stamina, no energy, no passion. Just want to get that damned hair off and go back to bed, or cover up and watch some stupid movie. How about you.

Yep! Know what you mean. I have severe back problems and when it is really acting up I get sharp, stabbing pains which causes me to jerk. When that happens the last thing I want in my hand is a straight razor as it could cause me to cut my throat and if its a really bad one it may not be an accident.........

When I'm sick I generally don't shave at all. Get a beard going. For a few years I used to feel that I had to shave with a straight and the DE/SE were 'contraptions'. Now I enjoy shaving DE/SE as much as with a straight.

GET WELL SOON !

I've been dealing with some nerve issues in my leg the last few months and it's been DEs pretty much all the time lately. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to the straights soon.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I've been dealing with some nerve issues in my leg the last few months and it's been DEs pretty much all the time lately. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to the straights soon.

I told you to quit holding the razor with your toes when you shave ........... problem solved !

They don't call me twinkle toes for nothing.

I use whatever I feel like using regardless of how I feel. Use whatever works for you when you are ill.

Bob

Well. I was just curious. It is interesting to know about staunch believers as opposed to the more open minded approach. I just got back to my SR and I sure did miss using it. Sometimes I have been simply lazy and made a safety razor slash just to geter done. I feel that once one uses an SR for any length of time then drops of for one reason or another there is a kind of wonderment that occurs when you flip open the long shiny blade twinkling in the bathroom light. It is kind of mystical in a way. It is tough trying to describe the feeling of returning to the long blade over the plastic stick with one blade. I have a rolls Royce razor which I have failed to get sharp. wish I could hone it up properly and give it a go. I think it was one of the first attempts at a single blade, precursor to the safety razor. Now I have also an old safety razor in which you place new blades into. I have yet to have any decent success with it.
If anyone reads this, what can you say about these two types of razors. TheRolls I have comes in a red leather case which has an aluminum case the razor is packaged in and has a strop inside which you are to flip and flop the blade to sharpen it. Any thoughts on how to sharpen this. I have pulled the blade and attempted to hone it but don't seem to get the right cut on the blade to get it sharp. If you can help I would be pleased. Thanks.

Just type in Rolls razor in the search box top right of the SRP home page. There should be lots of info there. It takes awhile to get your technique down with a DE/safety razor but I can get as good a shave with one of those as with a straight razor.

Bob

I don't have a complete Rolls, but from what I remember, the case has a strop on one side and a hone on the other and most of the Rolls razor sets I've seen had a broken hone.

As the honing was done using the flip flop mechanism in the Rolls case, it probably needs a few layers of tape on the spine to get the angle right if honing on regular sharpening stones. I would think this has been discussed in the past and searching this board is probably a good option.