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    Just shave with what you like. Sometimes you find a razor and it just has a certain synergy. That razor gives you a mystical experience. Good razors will always do the job, but you can always have that special one. The one that you would never sell or the one that you hate yourself for selling. IDK, this is not a sport for me, I am looking for a sublime experience-transcendental. Finding god at the apex of the bevel. The this vs. that questions and their inevitable answers from the beginners and the seasoned veterans all become moot. You are just going to like what you like.
    From their stillness came their non-action...Doing-nothing was accompanied by the feeling of satisfaction, anxieties and troubles find no place

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    I agree 100%.
    This is not a hobby for me. I am not in competition, and I'm not searching for BBS, trying to reach the pinnacle of technical excellence, though I have worked hard on my technique so I can reach what the Japanese call "mushin", or "no mindedness". So I can stop thinking about it and just shave.
    I'm looking for an "experience". A really fine, very pleasurable shaving experience, as often as I can.
    I shave purely for the enjoyment.
    I have a couple of straights, both vintage, that really make this easy for me. They are nothing special in the razor world. One is an American blade, one a Sheffield. But those two blades truly are special to me. They are more than the sum of their parts. I shaved with one of them tonight. Lovely.

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    "A razor that is more than the sum of its parts". I like it.
    I love the smell of shaving cream in the morning!

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    Wise words Mephisto.
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    Someone should write the book :

    "Zen and the Art of Straight Razor Shaving"

    It's just that kind of experience!

    Pete <:-}
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    Quote Originally Posted by petercp4e View Post
    Someone should write the book :

    "Zen and the Art of Straight Razor Shaving"
    And then we will get the Sartreists, the Shamanics, the Neitzschists, the Freudians, the Jungians and the Internet bloggers all joining in with their version of it all plus good recipes to boot.
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    One of the best descriptions I've ever read of this synergistic type of experience is that when several separate elements come together to form another distinct separate element and experience.

    Like a group of musicians, four separate musicians or elements come together and create a 5th element, that is unique and transcends each individual element.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phrank View Post
    One of the best descriptions I've ever read of this synergistic type of experience is that when several separate elements come together to form another distinct separate element and experience.

    Like a group of musicians, four separate musicians or elements come together and create a 5th element, that is unique and transcends each individual element.
    I have had some jams like that...bass, drums, guitars all linked together, riding on separate waves. They link to together creating something else, bigger.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mephisto View Post
    I have had some jams like that...bass, drums, guitars all linked together, riding on separate waves. They link to together creating something else, bigger.
    Me, too. We had a habit in one band I was in of recording our gigs. I would hear things in the mix; guitar parts I knew I did not play. My ear just "heard them", because the blend of the musicians playing together created it. Wasn't really a guitar lick, but it sure sounded like it. It was that combination of musicians, instruments, even that point in time, the mood of each individual that contributed to those sounds, that tone. It would never happen again. There would never be that exact combination in that exact way, ever again. Lovely stuff.
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    Agreed. Picking one up and smiling is the prelude to a good shaving experience.
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    I rest my case.

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