Thread: My Son

Wait until you get to shave with your grandsons! Now thats a treat!

I have to agree with Alembic. I have two daughters and I hope that they learn to shave with straight or de because of my influence on my wife. Never really wanted a son until I started shaving with a straight. Now I feel left out. I suppose when each of the girls gets married that their husbands will eventually want to shave with a straight....if I don't kill him with it first!!!
But, DAMN, how awesome is it to be a father to two wonderful, beautiful girls. Cheers!!!

Joseph

I have two grandsons, but at 1 and 2, they're a long way from needing to shave... My oldest grand daughter had watched me shave, and that actually keeps her quiet for a bit. She's 5...

Originally Posted by Alembic

I have to say that I am not normally jealous because I have two daughters, but in this case I am....

I hear ya brother! I would love to be able to share experiences with a son.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Wait until you get to shave with your grandsons! Now thats a treat!

'Bout the best I can hope for, but I reckon that their Daddies will already use one, which leads me too..

Originally Posted by SkinnyChef

I have to agree with Alembic. I have two daughters and I hope that they learn to shave with straight or de because of my influence on my wife. Never really wanted a son until I started shaving with a straight. Now I feel left out. I suppose when each of the girls gets married that their husbands will eventually want to shave with a straight....if I don't kill him with it first!!!
But, DAMN, how awesome is it to be a father to two wonderful, beautiful girls. Cheers!!!

Joseph

My daughters will probably laugh at any boyfriend who shaves in the whimpy mach3/fusion fashion. At the least they will probably doubt their manliness.
It's more awesome having three daughters, but it would be the most awesome to have a son to pass on some skills for their own personal use.


Mick

Originally Posted by SkinnyChef

I have to agree with Alembic. I have two daughters and I hope that they learn to shave with straight or de because of my influence on my wife. Never really wanted a son until I started shaving with a straight. Now I feel left out. I suppose when each of the girls gets married that their husbands will eventually want to shave with a straight....if I don't kill him with it first!!!
But, DAMN, how awesome is it to be a father to two wonderful, beautiful girls. Cheers!!!

Joseph

Sounds like your daughters are fairly young. Let me know if your opinion changes when they're my daughter's age (18 in a week and a half). They seem to undergo some kind of out of body experience during that time . All fun aside, she's a good kid. My 11 year old son is the resident propeller head. He wants a poster of the Periodic Table of the Elements in his room. This morning he was watching me shave (4/8 Eyre round tip and SCS New Spice cream) and wanted to know when he would be shaving. I told him I started @ 16. His reply was "yuck." I've got a lot of work ahead of me w/ him.

Luckily my 4 ear old shows a great interest in watching me shave. He loves when i mumble "funny things" under my breath. I had asked him if he would like to learn to shave like daddy when he get older, he cant wait. Not sure if its for the shaving or the swearing. I told him i'd take my Torrey and shine it up for him, and get it looking brand new for when he's ready. Now whenever he see's it he tells mom... "daddy's using MY razor" Needless to say the Preschool teacher gives me a weird look. I'm just happy to pass it on.

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

thats nice that ur boy is into straights also, i cant seem to get my uncle(father figure) into even thinking about useing a straight or a de. He likes his match 3 and his electric to much, maby one day ill get him into it.

Note well that a Mach-3 shave can be much improved by good "Latherin".
A decent brush and a selection of soap and creams goes a long way toward
a better shave.

A straight is a lot more work and if your face is one of those faces that
the Mach-3 is designed for it is hard to top. Except perhaps for the relentless trips
to the cash register that is fully balanced by RAD and HAD in some people.

It's very satisfying to be able to introduce a son to wet shaving. Several years ago I got my son interested and being adventurous as he is, stayed with it and overcame the initial issues that some experience. We have a great time comparing and sharing soaps, shaving creams, after shaves and shaving techniques. He's 39 now and I'm looking forward to hopefully get my two grandsons (16 & 17) interested. I have two more sons - one doesn't shave very much (undercover work) and the other just not interested at this point.

I have a 20 year old son. He has toyed with several of my DE razors but says they take too long. He says the straights are totally out of the question. He's pretty attached to the plastic crap and canned goo (a shower shaver)

My 5 year old grandson however is an entirely different. He totally digs DE shaving (no blade of course). I let him pick his soap, brush and razor and he has a blast. I made sure to give him a thorough briefing on straight razors when he asked about them one day. I told him that straights are really, really sharp and he shouldn't touch them. He then asked me if I could take the blade out of them, I said no, they don't have replaceable blades that you just sharpened it when it was dull. He has a Gem 1912 of his own and I promised him if he didn't touch my straight razors, I'd make sure he got a straight razor, and a strop of his own when he got old enough to shave "for real" and I'd even teach him to use it.

PS: For months he would only use Witch Hazel for an aftershave. For some reason he was convinced that any of the others would burn his face. I finally talked him into a healthy splash of Clubman AS one day. He was totally surprised that it didn't burn and how great it smelled. Of course he had to run around to all the women and show them how good he smelled. He's used Clubman every shave since.

In response to Soilarch's comment about my son making some shaving stuff. Last night we thought it would be cool if he started to turn out brush handles on his lathe here at home. I think we are going to give it a go. We are planning on buying some high end silver tip knots and see what we come up with.

Shave On,

Chip