Thread: COVID BEARD SHAVING

COVID BEARD SHAVING

So, anybody using a 2-razor shaving combination?

Since Covid, I found that we were going out much less and I developed a habit of not shaving daily. I shaved every 2-3 days, which made for some good shave test for honed razors, but I found that razor stubble helped keep a cloth mask on my face. I have a couple silky cloth masks, my daughter gave me, that I kept in the cars and were easy to breathe through. My bride tossed them in with the wash regularly.

I had recently picked up a nice heavy 7/8ths Romer, I could find nothing on this razor, but it is nicely ground and fitted in black horn scales. One of my razor picker found it and I gave her $20 for it.

The Romer is heavier, longer, (about ½”) and thicker than a Wade Butcher FBU, but much nicer hollow ground and finished. It is a beast.

I have never been a fan of heavy wide razors to shave with but do like the look. This razor with a Jnat edge plowed through 2-3 day of beard like it was not there. You just hear a swoosh, no hesitation, no chatter, no hair pop, just swoosh.

About the same time from the same gal, (she puts aside razors for me at her antique shop, she knows what I like), I bought a near NOS, never honed Filarmonica no. 12, in a pristine white Filarmonica box. This razor probably lived its life in the sock drawer.

It too got a Jnat edge and shaves a dream. So, with the Covid beard I started to shave with the pair, a weed whacking WTG pass with the Romer, and a second WTG, ATG pass with the Filly and done.

It is a sweet combination with these two shavers, the Romer is a bulldozer and the Filly a nimble sports car.

Anybody else doing this?


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