Thread: I found the Jerk who made my first shaves suck!

Between the lines of the non-information, the tone of that text is so utterly self-absorbed, that it becomes almost funny.
"- You seem like you are very experienced with straight razor shaving, can I call you? No. "

"- You seem like you are so very full of shit and totally unaware of the nonsense you're spreading, can we put a horses head in your bed? No. "


How I hate marketing talk, even more when disguised as "valid information" "the idea is to scrape the hair of your face"... Jeezes...

"Remember its just a big scraper and in essence any razor's job is just that, to scrape hair off your face with minimal irritation. "

I don't think so buster! This info needs to be taken down off the net.

See what a moron he is! People thought I was making this stuff up when I first talked about this in october. This is just malignantly festering on his site with lots of people seeing it and their faces abraiding away under their colonol conk scrapers.

Anyone care to join me in a shave?

You'll notice whenever they have a scene in a movie where a guy is using a straight invariably its always at a 90 degree angle. And you know everything you see in the movies is fact.

odd.. based on the title of the thread ... i thought Topher had just bought his first mirror!

Originally Posted by The Topher

If I could slug this guy I would for all the cuts he gave me with this bad advice over the last few years! http://premiumknives.com/ShopSite/Pr...ght_Razor.html

Check this crap out
"We encourage you to start shaving with a more forgiving angle of around 90 degrees. The idea is to scrap all of the shaving cream off of you face with the razor as if you were using the razor as a squeegee. "

That's even worse than the standard advice of "Never shave against the grain". Makes me wonder why they even bothered to post any advice at all.

"A more forgiving angle of around 90 degrees"!!! More forgiving than what? Man, this is amazing. Is there a Nobel prize for ignorance?

The idea is to scrape? Well hell, I've got perfectly good asphalt outside, I think I'll lather up and go rub on the parking lot. Even with a freakin' cartridge razor you don't scrape (at least not like that).

"Technique and lubrication are the most important aspects of a safe and close shave rather than the razor's actual sharpness"
Uhm. No? You can shave like someone that's done it for 50 years until you make that blade as sharp as a bowling ball... Sharpness is a key, to me.

"Also most initial shaving problems can be eliminated by going to a slicker shaving lubricant."
Really? That's why I cut myself: it wasn't my technique, it was because my soap wasn't slick enough.

"Even with years of straight razor shaving experience, I knick the heck out of myself and get a very poor shave when using anything that comes out of an aerosol can."
Again... it wouldn't be his technique or anything.

"While showering, start by wetting your face in the shower several times"
lol Isn't this sort of a principle idea of showering: get wet?

Anyway... all in good fun to us guys that know better. What about the poor guys that don't?

Um, you mean you're NOT supposed to use a 90 degree pose? Boy, that might explain some of the not so BBS shaves I've been getting since I started this madness last year! Probably also explains why I haven't cut myself yet. I think I'll take up knitting. At least then I can get hands on training from my Gammy!