Thread: A straight and nothing but a straight

My wife gave me a silvertip brush for a "stocking stuffer" last year -- BIG MISTAKE!!! I'm currently working on finishing my 31 razor/day rotation and have shaved exclusively with straights since January of this year. I "make time" ever morning. If I'm "rushed," I do only one pass. I have three DE "birth year/quarter" razors (Slim adjustable, flair tip & travel) but have never even tried them. I just love my straights too much.

"Disposable razors, disposable men."

I think I might use that little quote of yours ShavingSrgn...As often as possible!


Mick

Straights only on face for me but de s for my head not brave enough for shaving head with a straight lol

tyke121: I found it was actually easier than a DE to shave your head with! just have to be careful behind your ears where you cant see LOL

Lazarus78, Really ? wow might need to try then like you say ears may disappear but will save me having to listen to wife saying what another razor? lol

Yeah really biggest factor in that is that it doesnt clog up LOL. ymmv of course!!!

Originally Posted by Rob7611

I have a question? I see in some posts that I read that when someone travels they don't take their straight..Why is that ? Could it be a time issue ?

I never travel with a straight razor for several reasons.

I don't travel with something that would be painful to lose or misplace. I have only vintage blades. Each is unique.
Travel bathrooms are not ideal. You cannot guarantee adequate space, water temperature, etc.
You would have to take a strop, touch up hone or strop, padding for the razor itself. Not impossible, but difficult.
Time is always short when traveling. A careful shave would be difficult.

I take a Schick injector when I travel.

Originally Posted by tyke121

Straights only on face for me but de s for my head not brave enough for shaving head with a straight lol

I was once there too but after a while, curiousity will get the best of you or you'll think you're good enough with a straight to pull it off and then you'll be shaving your head with a straight. As Lazarus points out, it really does do a fine job.

Been shaving with a straight for less than five years (4 weeks to be precise) and have never used anything else even for touch-ups. The words 'irritation' and 'burns' have completely been erased from my dictionary (more like shaved off lol). Although i do think at times that i MIGHT have to get a DE for days when time isn't very kind, haven't had any so far but you never know...hopefully by then id have mastered the straight just enough for a quick shave. But then again...you never know...

Going on three weeks now since starting with a Dovo stainless, which I rolled the edge on with the first strop. Today, I got a Wapi and a Globusman-Gold in the mail and they needed a little work, but a little over a week ago I got a C-MON Cadillac and WOW; now I have to try to hone everything else up to that. Got busy with a Shapton 16K today, so we'll see how it goes this week...

Now, when I'm in a hurry, I still use my old 1977 Atra Plus, but that's only due to being military and having to go work out on some mornings prior to shaving and VERY limited time in between PT and having to be back at work. I doubt I'll get to use a straight very much underway on a submarine, either, as the heads are as cramped as my time for hygiene. I WILL take a couple along though!

As for flying, I f@#$ing HATE the TSA, the FAA, the airlines and airports in general, so I only intend to fly ONE more time in my lifetime, and that's to retire from here and go back to God's Country (Texas) in 2015, at the taxpayers' expense. Anytime I may have to fly after that, no doubt due to my future employment, I intend to ALWAYS fly ARMED, as I almost always have, so that means I'll almost ALWAYS be checking a bag. My straights can ride in the pistol case. I use a Plano T12 two-pistol case, but of course more than two pistols can fit, depending. (IF a firearm gets stolen out of luggage, I think they pretty much bring EVERYBODY from about six major law enforcement agencies to come investigate and crawl into everybody's bowels with a microscope, so I figure a couple of my razors would be pretty safe. It's the ONE THING that the airlines really don't want to screw up.)

I don't have any intention whatsoever to use a DE. I'm just going to keep working toward always using a straight and when I need to cop out to the Atra Plus, well, so be it. I have about a 2-year stock of cartridges that will get stretched even further now, and the Atra Plus was never a bad shave for me.