Thread: How NOT to do it!

i have always believed the best way to learn is to try it yourself everybody does something a liitle bit different. i recurited a fellow str8 shaver the other day at a family get together he said he couldent find a razor for under $200 i dont know where he was looking but i directed him to vintage for a new razor answered all his questions to the best of my abilty and sent him to srp for the help he wil need to be a sucessful str8 shaver the guy in the paper sounds like you pay him $70 he tells you how to hold the blade and stretch the skin and then youre on your own man just buy lynss dvd and save some money

"Like back-scratching, shaving is an act much more easily performed on others than on oneself. Which explains why our grandfathers went to the barber for a shave"

What?

All of a sudden, each time a man needed a shave he headed to his barber? That would cost him a fortune...
From time to time, yes, a man would get a barber shave, but most of the time he would shave himself, right?

i could see asking someone advice, in person or online...or a dvd even. but the best way is to learn yourself. i know my parents weren't shelling out money for me to learn how to ride a bike. i fell, with a scraped knee, probably cried a little bit. then, i tried again.

like with shaving with the cutthroat, i've cut myself. adjusted after seeing how i cut myself, since it wasn't that hard to figure out, and tried again.

i wonder how many barbers pre-1960, even way earlier, would charge their patrons to teach them how to shave.

Stick to dancing.

Originally Posted by brian p

i could see asking someone advice, in person or online...

Your avatar looks familiar.

If you look at the pictures, they're using the kind where you insert the replaceable blade. So he didn't even get to use the genuine article for his 70 bucks.