Thread: On razor rotation and resting

Originally Posted by Lejeune

Fellow shavers, I have gotten a variety of responses and tales when asking this question. I usually rotate my razors so they get 72 hours between each use. The idea is to give them time to "rest." It was my understanding (and maybe I'm wrong) that this was the original reason behind 7 day sets. Rotate through a different razor each day until you get back to the first. Recently however, a fellow shaver suggested that barbers only used 7 day sets so they could sharpen them all at once and would frequently use the same razor repeatedly for weeks at a time. What do you guys think? Am I foolish to rest my razors through a 72 hour rotation?

I seldom use a razor two days in a row, unless I'm on a trip and pack one, but it's just because I like to switch around.

This old barber-marketing-wives-tale has been disproved by modern DE and cartridge razors (4-5 shaves easy without resting), and especially the Feather Super blades which can be used daily for at least 10-20 shaves on the toughest of beards. I have personally used my mighty Dovo Bismarck daily for months with no more than stropping and no rest between. NEXT.

A resting tool makes a sad picture.

Won't comment on the above.... (One of the Mods will just block it!!)

What is the problem in saying that this is sadder than that ???

Or that I prefer to see this than that ?

What

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Mine have no choice but to rest, as I shave in the same rotation with them.

I have 45 straights and usually use the same one for at least 2 or 3 weeks daily. I haven't found different results from resting vs not resting the razors in them needing touch ups.

I winnowed my 40 odd straights down to 20 "special ones" (yes, they all wanted into that category) and I rotate those. Shave with one a few days and then on to another. I strop 25/50 right after shaving and then often another 20-30 before using it again the next morning, as the lather works. It has become a great routine for me over the past six months.

An issue of ego. At one time we felt that we had dominion over all animals. Then we found that may be not.
Many still hold that opinion over what we call the "Inanimate". Are our carbon atoms any different than the ones in a razor? Are our iron atoms any different?
Just because our atoms create different compounds that reach to each other differently it doesn't mean that the atoms in a razor aren't made of electrons and protons and etc that don't move and chg locations.
It them rest and change.

As long as the electrons and protons in my razors stay in them, I can live with it. If they start moving off the blade, then I'm going to get concerned.