Thread: What age were ye when ye first used a straight.

5 years ago at the age of 16 (21 now). Started when grandma said "bet you won't shave with a straight razor." Good shaving ever since.

Fifty-six. Just a kid, really ...

66, I'm a late starter.

To me I was 45 in 2014 in December and I will never look back just a great way to shave.

I was 17.
Got myself a straight from a local shop ,didn't have enough money for a strop so you can imagine how my first attempt went.
I remember seeing my late uncle shaving with a straight in his kitchen when I was about 8 thought I would try that for myself one day.
Been using a straight mostly for about 20 years now.
This forum has been a boon & thanks to the guidence her I can now keep all my straights up to snuff.
Cheers Paul

Originally Posted by dimab

At the age of 44. Got too annoyed by all those Gillette Mach N+1, tried a shavette for a couple of months - just to make sure it was for me, before investing the not so negligible first investment, and then finally went for it.

You must be a brother I never knew I had! I went the same route. I got a Magic shavette in October 2015 when I was 46. Three months later, I got my first real straight. Now I'm 47 and I have two straights, 2 strops, and 3 brushes (2 boar, 1 synthetic).

Started about a month ago - 58

The shavette dad gave me, with no lessons, around 16 (presumably because I already knew everything). I'm my upper 20s I started using shavette regularly. True straight this year at 46 and have me further evidence I know just enough to be dangerous. I'm wearing out my styptic pencil, but liking it with the help of this forum.

25 years to late at 41.

First shave with at straight at age of 13. My grandfather tried to teach me. I was too young and dumb to listen; after all, a plastic disposable could remove the peach fuzz in about 2 minutes. It took me 30 years to come back to the straight and realize that once again - I should have listened to my elders!