Thread: Why Do You Shave With a Straight Razor?

At first it was the nostalgia, and the challenge to build the necessary skills to relive a sigificant part of history.
That fulfilled, I sought older and older razors, which held even more history and experience than I could imagine.
My youngest razor is over 50 years old. My oldest predates this country. I have two that were found hidden in a house built before the Revolutionary War.
My razors have been on sailing ships, horseback, carried home in the first cars. In settlers homes. They've crossed this country in wagons and the first railways.
These simple, and beautiful tools are still shaving. Shaving me. They will still be making history when I am gone.
I can only hope it is with someone that has a similar quest.
Ed
quicknicker