Man, the face-turbating thing is wrong. WRONG! Still, I do it sometimes as looking at some razors posted. If it looks a good shave, One must ponder!;) Still.......Faceturbating???? I would call it rubbing the beard in anticipation! Yeah! That's it!!
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Man, the face-turbating thing is wrong. WRONG! Still, I do it sometimes as looking at some razors posted. If it looks a good shave, One must ponder!;) Still.......Faceturbating???? I would call it rubbing the beard in anticipation! Yeah! That's it!!
That's a long winded way to say 'Foreplay' isn't it?! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by sharptonn
Mick
I suppose it could be called "shave foreplay" If you actually have the razor in hand, ready to shave! :D
I digress!
I haven't shaved with a straight razor in about a year! I have been a solid straight-razor shaver since 2004 until last year I went to Classic Shaving's store and purchase a Merkur DE razor and 2 packs of blades. The blades are almost used through and I just ordered a Hart razor today! I can't wait to use the straights again. I guess I just got bored with the 3 that i had and really enjoyed the ease and newness of the DE razor. Can't wait to try out my new steel in a couple days!Quote:
Originally Posted by ReardenSteel
I guess my answer is it is more than just shaving after you have been at it for 8 years or so and the newest razor I have owned, until today was a Wade & Butcher from the 50's and it still works..my next youngest is a french tipped razor with buffalo horn scales from the 1870's from Plymouth Hollow CT. You have got to love quality craftsmanship!
Yes, but a clean cut bum...Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulKidd
Huh....I thought that rubbing one out and faceturbating were one and the same...Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
You can never call a necessity an obsession . Shaving, and shaving correctly, is a daily 'necessity'. It's like the old saying: ' buy a man a fish and he eats for a day ; teach him to shave and his beard is gone... Or something like that...(:-)
buy a man a razor and he cuts himself, teach him to shave and he will be buying many razors??
And find yourself unable to disassociate yourself with 90% of the comments made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo
in reply to "3. ...you have to remind yourself in social settings that everyone doesn't want to hear about straight razors" on the first page, it's so true...I'll have friends coming over to drink and hang out a bit, and i'll say, "hey, come look at this badass custom design/scales/etc" and they just smile and nod. But I did ask my friend yesterday, as I was showing him Max's work, if he thought it was weird that I look up razors all day, wishing I could buy them all..he said no, he does the same thing with stuff he's into.
I just thought I was getting all OCD with an interest, as it's happened before. Firearms, actually....that, "Must.Buy.EVERYTHING" kinda feeling lol
When your kids are called Wade and Friodur :shrug:
When the missus gives up her bathroom because it has been too stuffed with shaving gear, you know the AD's have worked their magic:)
Our main bathroom (and the one downstairs) is being completely renovated. Yesterday my wife said to me "What kind of shelves do you want?"
I said "Why does it matter what I want?" (NB: the planning of this renovation has gone past the point where I even pretend to care anymore...I am sure some of you know what I am talking about)
She said "Because this bathroom is where you keep all your shaving gear"
Now, I don't know whether that is proof of an obsession or not, but the mere fact that anyone's wife acknowledges that the renovated main bathroom (yes, the one with the bubbly bathtub in it) is your shaving bathroom probably means something rather profound.
James.
My wife has already committed to abandon our bathroom and move her stuff into the guest bathroom when the kids move out. This is without any prompting from me.
This could be pie in the sky. My daughter just moved back in for the 3rd time.
When your wife start to understand difference between honing and stropping, difference between pastes, stones, acknowledged in all famous razor manufacturers, can tell you difference between half hollow ground and full hollow.
Oh, and when she starts to explain to her friends how stones can be so expensive)))))
If your wife knows how expensive the stones are, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonbon
You know your hooked when you start drawing up plans for which wall the sink and mirror would look best in the home office lol how can I be expected to limit myself and my shave gear to one tiny bathroom?!
When SWMBO is out picking up horn material "while running errands" to make brushes and scales because your too busy working :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonbon
When you start hanging around the lobby of your condo building offering to shave strangers male or female.
Taking a quick break from packing to add...
What used to fit in your dop kit now requires three boxes :/
Highly debatable question - mine was after my first successful sr shave - hooked and obsessed
My wife calls the whole thing man pampering.Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
The inlaws came to us for dinner on Sunday and when the father in law asked where I was she replied "In the bathroom, man pampering"
I did however find out that the father in law uses a wilkinson sword DE that he was bought at 15 by his dad. He actually has a pretty sweet little set up.
I only need to check my Ebay buying history to know that I am hopelessly lost in Razordom, a make beleive place, or maybe not, that exists somewhere in....The Twilight Zone!
Having just gotten a mileage reimbursement check in the mail...my first thought was to see if I could sign them all over to Larry A, in an effort to get a leg up on the collection...
That's no joke. I thought that.
its not an obession its a passion, some of us are just more passionate than others.
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Originally Posted by Bullpen7979
Although Larry can hone quite nicely, I believe his razors should be put on the "razors to avoid" list. The last razor I saw reminded me of the term "lockjaw". Do yourself a favor and buy a clean razor.
I have only been using a straight since the start of december and I already have early onset RAD (have a Boker red injun and W&B in the mail on their way too me) and the point about having to remember not to talk about razors in public or to your friends happens far too often already. I can see this making me very poor but happy!
I believe the key to beating an addiction isn't to stop buying but to start selling. I'm only a year or two into this and I have the urge to make my own accessories and sell the over flow. I know nothing about wood working or pottery or anything else in wet shaving production and I'm already thinking of taking classes to cure my ignorance.
I don't know the magnitude of such cheques, but Whipped Dog razors cater to a specific niche in the market - and that is the cheap niche. To his credit, whipped dog makes no bones about that (pun intended): "...all corners are cut to reduce the price...".Quote:
Originally Posted by Bullpen7979
If you have the cash, why on earth would you buy an "all corners cut" razor? They may shave you fine, but I doubt even whipped dog himself would expect you to use his service as anything but a gateway or stepping stone to bigger and better things.
James.
Man thats some real hate for whipped dog going on in here.
I wouldn't say I have any hate for any man, least of all whipped dog. I am merely pointing out the truth of his business model, as he himself states on his front page.Quote:
Originally Posted by lamppa
James.
Critiquing and hatred are often at opposite ends of the spectrum, and I'm not sure the word hate is warranted here....Quote:
Originally Posted by lamppa
I just went back through the posts and was wondering how you came to this conclusion? I haven't read a post that suggested a hatred of Whipped dog here at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by lamppa
Mick
I am trying to see where MY nice thread from last year went way :OT
I think maybe we better put it back on topic..
I've tried growing a beard for the winter months outside now twice. I just cant stop shaving!!! 3 weeks of growth, gone. 4 weeks of growth, gone. Of coarse the day after I shave, the boss sticks me outside again and my face gets cold!!! Im on attempt number 3 now!!! I need to hide that new Gold Bug I just got!!!!!
I've been toughing it out and growing a beard so I can do an epic shave. It takes a lot of discipline to grow a beard.
I can't get past day four myself. :)
Mick
I was waiting for my face to heal after a football acident and got to day 3 and couldn't wait any longer and shaved anyway, was real carefull round the cut and got away with only opening it up again a little bit.
Was worth it though
I always do a bit of shaving on the neck and a bit on my cheeks to keep things clean looking when I grow my beards. But It just doesn't give me enough of a shave fix. I go in and start smelling my soaps and creams, then I start to twitch and talk to myself. then I walk out bald faced and SWMBO says " I thought you were growing a beard?" Im in such a state of zen that I don't even here this.
3 straight razor shaves in (newbie) and I am already doing this!Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun