Thread: My Son

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

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.

That's just about the coolest thing I've heard in a long time. Sounds like you have an great little gent there.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

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

Wow Kelly, I knew you were old, but didn't think THAT old

Chip,

How cool. I know you must be proud.

I have a few years before I get to witness my son actually shaving with a straight. He's practiced with a muted Gold Dollar (http://straightrazorpalace.com/shave...tml#post609069) and is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his facial hair. Against that day I've already bought him a vintage straight that I'll need to get honed before he can use it. No rush, though. If he's like me it may be another 5 years or so before he'll need it.

Again, congrats!

My son is 6 right now. He started taking a big interest in what daddy was doing when he was 4, so for his 5th birthday he got a disposable straight (no blades), my traveling strop, brush, and soap. Every time I shave he's in there with me, shaving. His technique has come a long way from that first night (same can be said of us all when we first started), and I wouldn't trade moments like that for anything.

My son is 12 and could not be less interested in how I or anyone else shaves. He and I are very different and share little but a deep and intense love for each other.

I enjoy getting dressed for the day -- usually suit, tie, wingtips. He wears shorts and a tee shirt. Oh, and Kobes (which smell terrible).

Business cut for me. His Justin Bieber cut looks remarkably Beatle-like, and he practices tossing his head (and hair) to one side in a manner that he thinks attracts 12-year-old girls. It does, by the way. Some 15-year-olds also, I've noticed.

When I got my first coticule he feigned an interest because he saw me fondling it for a long time. When he asked what it cost and I told him he literally fell on the ground laughing.

I've always been a very quiet, introspective kind of guy. He's the class clown.

Most mornings he leaves for school about the time I'm in the middle of my straight shave. He knocks on the door, finds a relatively clean piece of cheek, and kisses me goodbye. Never gives the scuttle, the razor, the brush a second look.

I live for the day he will ask me to teach him how to do it. I don't tell him this, because he is his own person and needs to find his own way. He may never ask, and I will love him none the less.

But I do envy you guys whose sons and grandsons ask.

What a great thing.I tried to get my sons to give it a whirl9, and they just plain woos out.