Thread: A lady's straight razor...lets design it!

check out this thread if you have never seen it....

http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...hie-razor.html

I gave up at page 5 of nothing but guys rambling & somewhat rude banter in that thread...

I am looking to hear from the ladies and their opinions on design. If there is no interest, I'll drop the idea.

If this thread starts in the direction of that one, I'll see that it is deleted.

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Originally Posted by shooter74743

If this thread starts in the direction of that one, I'll see that it is deleted.

I'll check in with the Mrs. tomorrow. I normally do the shaving for her there, but she uses my Shavette for her legs. Good luck with the thread, you might get a better response by sending a PM or two just to garnish a better response. Thanks for keeping it gentlemanly

I'm just a guy, so what do I know, but I would think that women, just like men, would have varied preferences when it comes to their razors.

Good Morning Gents and Ladies!

I don't check my email as often as I used to, so I'm not sure if there continues to be any interest in this particular subject or not. However I was certainly pleased to be asked for my opinion. Since that doesn't happen very often..... I'm not gonna pass up a good opportunity to throw in my 2 cents worth.

I personally use a 1964 Gillette Blue Double edge razor that was purchased for me as gift from Josh here on SRP, who was simply beside himself knowing that the "Soapmistress" was shaving with a Dollar General disposable razor

I must admit that I truly love my DE and would never consider going back to a disposable
. I also love my straight razor collection, but have only attempted to shave my legs a few times with one. I just feel like I have more control with the DE ( not to mention I'm always in a hurry ....sigh )

However there certainly are ladies here who shave with straights. I fear that Silver is the only one I have contact with now and then and I know for a fact that she loves hers.

As far as practical design is concerned, I really do like the idea of a shorter blade. Seems like it would be easier to manuver over the slopes and valleys of a woman's figure.

Soapmistress

i'm not a lady, however it's an interesting question from a requirments perspective, and being and engineer, its got me thinking.. I hope you don't mind?

Perhaps and exaggerated half smile with a very round point? me reason for this would be that the round point would better help protect against nicks on the sometimes very uneven surfaces involved, and also the exaggerated half smile (think of literally a smile cut in half, wide at the toe and sweeping right back to narrow at the heel) would allow for a more easily obtainable "variable width" shaving edge (you can use as little or as much of an arc of the edge radius as is appropriate to the width or size of the flattened plane to be shaved). may be a little more complex to hone though

Really hope this is ok involving myself. that's all i have and i shall now step back and watch with interest

cheers

Simon

I'm back from vacation (Padre (PINS) is still as wonderful as I remember. Twice a year isn't enough to make it down there.

Now that I am back, I've gotten a lot of feedback via PM & plan on grinding on it soon. Main thing that I am after is something that works & works very well, then we can dress it up once the design is right.

I truly appreciate all of the input received, now i hope that I can put the ideas into a form. I got in my drive wheel for my grinder & need to finish it up. It's just down to the fine tuning now, then I get to put it to work!