Thread: Could've had personal training all this time...gee

Via my mom, I found out my uncle has been shaving with straights since he was a teen. He's only 7 years older than me, so it's not like he lived in a different time where he'd be more likely to be exposed to straights. He was an assistant butcher at 13 and always had lots of knives of various types, but I never knew he had a straight.
I told him I'm coming by to see his new house and for a shave.
The blade... I don't know what kind, literally no markings. Looked like a 4/8ish wedge that has hone wear to rival my worst ebays and what appears to be a yellow coticule. He doesn't know what the stone and blade are. The stone's gotta be a coticule though.
LOL. Had a straight razor shaver in the same house as me for a good chunk of my childhood and didn't know it.

He said he didn't use it in a while, and he took it to the coticule without slurry, and really didn't look to be using light pressure, he was kinda clanking it right against the stone as he flipped it. He used a belt to strop. Just a leather belt of his. Didn't use cream or soap, just water. I was pretty nervous, but damn it, it shaved good as any of my blades ever did. I was thoroughly impressed, and he wasn't really enthusiastic about any of it. He says he shaves with mach 3 now because it's a pain in the @$$ when he's tired as (eh, you know) and has to get to the shop, but now and then he uses the straight.

So here I am, educating myself for months online, trying, trying, till I get it.
And he's just doing it since he's a kid, telling me "it's just basic sh**, if you know knives and sh**"(which I would think not true at all) when I asked him where he learned to sharpen and strop it.
Cool and humbling as hell.

Just thought I'd post my shave experience for the day.(evening actually)