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

About September of this year at 38 years old. Already can't imagine going back to an electric. As of Christmas I now have three straight razors, two badger brushes, and a English bridle strop in a pear tree. (makings of a good song) And to think the original reason I started investigating straights was to save money! Boy was I stupid.

My wife bought me a straight razor for Christmas back in the early eighties along with a strop, mug, and brush. I never cut myself but I couldn't get a close shave. It went into the drawer until 2011 when with the help of the internet I found SRP. Sent the razor to Lynn for honing, watching the videos and reading the Wiki and I was in heaven. Now with over thirty shave ready razors I love my wet shaving and wouldn't trade it for the world.

58 years old and bought the SR at an antique shop for $14. It's been uphill since then.

34

Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk

I was 16 and my grandfather took me through the procedure. After he was satisfied with my performance, he presented me with his straight razor that was his father's razor from around 1895. Sadly I lost my grandfather ten years after that day and the razor was stolen in a burglary just a year before that, however the memories of that day that can never be taken from me and that is the most precious thing that I have; the pride of my grandfather showing his grandson how to shave with the razor he learned to shave with!

51. I got into safety razor wet shaving maybe 5 years earlier. Natural curiosity, and being extremely macho, led me to investigating straights.

1st time in 1980 in a barber shop in Italy, then nothing till april 2014 when I got a shavette, and definitely converting to the real one in may 2014.
I am 55

At 33. That was almost 4 years ago. But I stray into the world of vintage DEs, because, like a crow, I like all shiny things.

Started when I was 21. 65 years old now.

Used shavette for a couple of years then took the plunge in Nov and bought a straight have used a rolls razor on and off, straight on a stick not sure if that counts! My first post as everything I have ever needed to ask has already been answered on this forum so thanks for that guys.