Helpful Aphorisms For Straight Shavers

**JohnnyCakeDC** · 01-20-2011, 12:10 AM

Experience will do away with any need to numerically count one's passes on the strop.

**BrickBag** · 01-20-2011, 06:28 AM

If the lather stays on the edge when rinsing the blade, it's too dry.

**LinacMan** · 01-20-2011, 12:47 PM

Like a fragile bird
Gently grasped in one's fingers
Razors should be held

**Bruce** · 01-20-2011, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

Experience will do away with any need to numerically count one's passes on the strop.

Sorry, we retentives and OCDs have to count the strokes; wouldn't want to under or over do, you know: can't under or over do, you know.

**JohnnyCakeDC** · 01-21-2011, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by Bruce

Sorry, we retentives and OCDs have to count the strokes; wouldn't want to under or over do, you know: can't under or over do, you know.

I've got the OCD thing too, so I can't deal anymore with loosing count and starting all over.

**onimaru55** · 01-21-2011, 12:31 AM

OCD ??? You want OCD ??? .... I count both directions & divide by 2 !!!

**ndw76** · 01-21-2011, 05:17 AM

Originally Posted by Bruce

Sorry, we retentives and OCDs have to count the strokes; wouldn't want to under or over do, you know: can't under or over do, you know.

My wife loves to ask me questions when I'm stropping. Just have to start counting again, out loud, until I get to one hundred.

**gugi** · 01-21-2011, 05:35 AM

3. A little stubble is better than a little irritation
--AFDavis11

**WineGuyD** · 01-22-2011, 11:37 PM

WineGuyD's Law: "Anything that can be cut with a straight razor will get cut!"

**ohlookaneagle** · 01-23-2011, 12:10 AM

"It [a knife] is like a wife: every night, you had better stroke it."
-Bolivar, the cook, Lonesome Dove

And, while not strictly related, it does involve something sharp, Haiku, and, being the best piece of poetry I have ever written, I try to work it into conversation:

The guillotine slide
The birds dim their cheerful chirp
Someone gets a mop
-Michael

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