Thread: What are your friends/familys reaction to you shaving w/straight rzrs

I guess I am strange enough that noone who knows me thinks it odd for me to do this. I have converted a few guys to wet shaving and straights including my brother, who will be getting a gift for his 53rd birthday.

My wife loves it, my little boy thinks it's cool, I guess that's all that matters to me. Don't really care what others think.*












*except you guys here on SRP.

When I ask my friends ( over 50 crowd..a few younger) they all shave in the shower. Still trying to convert one person ......LOL...well I got both my sons DE shaving and making lather ....I'm happy

My wife likes to sneek a watch, my son's first shave was with a straight, he is now 18 and will still use it when he shave (still a patchy beard, think SHAGGY). Coworkers? They feel it's to dangerous. I'm still workin on 'em.

Originally Posted by CStevens

Sorry for the long title for this post. It's kind of funny how shocked people are when you tell them you intend to actually use the razors in your collection. Most have been positive in my case. The usual comments are "wow! that's awesome!" or "I didn't know you could still get them". On occasion I hear something like "that's stupid!", but that comment came from a man I later found out to be a trailer trash racist drunk (I'm not joking). I understand the shock from younger people, but some of the people I interact with are older men & women in their 50's & 60's, from flea markets and antique stores I frequent. I didn't see my first real straight razor until my 20's, and can't understand how someone who grew up watching "dad" use a straight razor never used one themselves. But anyway, that's enough of my rambling. What do the people in your lives think about your razor addiction?

If my parents were still around, they would have tried to talk me out of it, particularly after my bloody learning efforts. Dad used an electric and Mom told me about the time his went on the Fritz and he had to use my multiblade razor. He had real sensitive skin and was cutting himself up and cussing. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall for that!

When I started SR shaving last year my wife checked up on me often because she was afraid that I would slice my neck. Nowadays she just finds it funny that I shave the "old man's" way.

My little boys are curious about it. I don't let them touch the SR blade, but I let them pretend shave with a DE w/o a blade in it.

My cousin thinks its cool, and wanted to try it, but chickened out. I at least got him into wet shaving with a DE.

My coworkers think I'm living the dangerous life by using a "cutthroat" razor. I remember when I told most of them. Were starting a meeting attended by a few VPs, senior personnel, and young engineers; the meeting was to promote the company's young engineers group. We started off by introducing each other and saying something "interesting" about ourselves. Most people talked about their hobbies. When it got to me, I said that I recently started shaving with a cutthroat razor. You should've seen the scared faces and heard the "eww"s and "ouch"s from everyone there.

My latest acquisition from E-Bay was from a guy who'd bought a beautiful DOVO Bismarck, the one with the faux MOP inlay, and a 21" x 3" strop from SRD. In emailing, he told me he only used it once and that it was too frightening an experience!!

New DOVO's are almost impossible to find for the last several months, let alone the one with the inlay, and a new strop to boot? So I got the whole deal for basically for the razor and strop, and they arrived brand new, for a 1/3rd off if I bought new. Guy said the razor was even, "sharpened" when he got it...and it arrived absolutely shave ready.

So in this case, fear was good (for me). I mentioned to him it takes time to learn, that at one time everyone shaved like this, but nope, he was going to use the money from the sale to buy a Braun Series 7 electric shaver.

So everybody's happy!!

My friends don't find it too strange but then again my friends are pretty strange.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

My friends don't find it too strange but then again my friends are pretty strange.

Ya know, that pretty much covers all my bases too.

I think you should be in my friend list Mike.