Thread: Thebigspendurs axioms of shaving

9) Pick the right gear. Chipped or bad-quality blades will ensure injuries and discomfort. Say NO to Pakistan

• If your straight razor doesn't give you the most comfortable shave of anything you've ever used, either you've got a cheap/poor razor, it's poorly honed, or you don't know how to shave.
  
• Honing isn't rocket science. It's just shaping metal into a nice polished shape that cuts well.
  
• You can only shave with one razor at a time. But you can enjoy looking at, fiddling with, trading and owning as many as you can buy.
  
• If you worry about wearing your blade away to nothing by over honing it with your fine barber hones, use those hones to hone out a small nick in the blade and you may end up with a different perspective after a few weeks.
  
• Some of the best shavers have plain black handles and plain undecorated blades.
  
• If you cut yourself bad enough to leave a faint scar, chances are it was because you were careless with a spike point razor.
  
• If you had to shave with a Pakistani razor every day, you'd be trying to find a way to meet Allah as quickly as possible, too.
  
• Friends give you wedges, not wedgies.
  
• The more you know, the more you know how much there is to learn.
  
• If half the barbers say you must rest a razor for a day or two after shaving and half the barbers say you don't, then we know that half the barber's are wrong about something as simple as that. Accept their expert opinion on anything more complex at your own risk.
  

• Don't shave while wearing your tens unit.

If you must listen to music while using a straight razor, don't choose the 1812 overture.

Originally Posted by Rajagra

If you must listen to music while using a straight razor, don't choose the 1812 overture.

Or The Symphony No. 94 in G major by Joseph Haydn.

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

Or The Symphony No. 94 in G major by Joseph Haydn.

Would that be the one referred to as the "Surprise Symphony," by chance? Great piece of music...not so much for shaving.

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

Or The Symphony No. 94 in G major by Joseph Haydn.

or the "Flight of the Bumblebee"...lol

Originally Posted by certifiedbodyman

or the "Flight of the Bumblebee"...lol

Oh, God, there's one that should make the transition to Frankenstein looks pretty quick. That and a bit of Wagner.

Originally Posted by PapaBull

• If you had to shave with a Pakistani razor every day, you'd be trying to find a way to meet Allah as quickly as possible, too.
• Friends give you wedges, not wedgies.

Originally Posted by PapaBull

• The more you know, the more you know how much there is to learn.
  
  

Oh yeah