ive been using a straight for a few years.
it was 5/8" plastic scale and dutch point. the plastic handle finally broke and
i wanted a wooden handle but it was 6/8", what i didnt think about was the square tip.
https://ibb.co/cTZLdRy
damn what a difference in a bad way. im nicking myself quite a bit. i think the square tip is really screwing with me. im bleeding like the guy in TCM. jeez.
anyone with experience?
Does a Venus razor count? I like the hand-held ones because you can manipulate them more easily and they're easier to clean and replace the blade. Plus, I'm not sure they have any electric ones that aren't meant for the face.
Dad uses a combination of straight and electric razors for his face, and my brother, well....he's a lazy-butt who waits until he's got a tangled "bush" on his face, mows it off with an electric razor from the family dopp kit once every 1-2 months outdoors, and then uses a straight razor in his sink in our bathroom.
Before mom got sick, she used to do barber-like work for my dad and brother. She had a black box with an electric razor, detachable extensions of different sizes for the blade (so you could buzz or trim people's hair and leave enough behind on their heads), barber shears, a comb, and a plastic smock for the person she was working on to wear. We call it the "family dopp kit."
i think your talking disposable razors. im talking about the old school scary looking ones :) like in the picture i posted.
thats cool of your mom. i wouldnt trust my mother with any of that. when we were kids she would put scotch tape around our heads and cut along the tape. she was terrible. lol
Ohhhhh!! :O I didn't realize people used some of those weird, old-school razors. You must have a very steady hand with that.
That's horrible with the tape. She may as well just sent you to the barber's. I'd never do that to the men in my house.
They actually sell disposable straight razors. They use them at barbershops. One time when I was getting my hair cut I asked if they ever did straight shaves and the person cutting my hair showed one to me. It was smaller and more plain looking than a straight razor a person would buy to use daily.
shareGotta use the strop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKV379pAR0
oh, i certainly strop and i will sing that in your honor at my next stropping!
dont know about that long stride technique though, he's a master.
No, I would never use one, they seem more like weapons than bathroom gear.
I associate those with mafia and horror movies and Jim Croce's song Bad, Bad Leroy Brown...
'He got a custom Continental, and an El Dorado too
He got a .32 gun in his pocket full of fun
He got a razor in his shoe.'
my father passed when i was young. one of the few things i had of his was his straight razor. i used it a little bit, unfortunately i lost it. anyhow, a few years ago i decided to give it a go again. i had a few nicks to start off with but i caught on pretty quick and just used a disposable for really tough spots.
but with this new one. i lost complete confidence. i didnt think it would be this big of a difference. im thinking i need to use the tip of the blade more with this style. i sliced beneath my right ear 4 times on 4 shaves.
wasnt cheap either over $300.
I'm in that five dollar a month shave club, four multiblades each month, it's cheap and you just chuck them out each week...cut and forget, move on.
shareRight on.
shareI've wanted to dabble, but I don't trust myself lol. Even shaving against the grain with a new disposable, I bleed like a stuck pig.
sharelol, no way will i attempt against the grain with a straight. f that!
it really wasnt that difficult. i just started doing areas i felt comfortable doing. i had no trouble doing cheeks, around jaw, or neck.
front of chin, stache, chin curvature took some nicks, they were my trouble spots. i used a disposable until i got the hang of those.
definitely a round (dutch) point helps A LOT!
As in a 'cut-throat'? I confess I've never used one.
shareDon’t you have to sharpen it every day?
shareno, they recommend sharpening/honing every 6 months. i had my first one a few years and it was still sharp as hell.
you're probably thinking "stropping" were you're rubbing the blade on a piece of leather. yeah, you do that every time. only takes a minute. its more like cleaning the blade.
I have a shavette ( uses half a de blade ) and I don't like it. Going by my experience you need to be a hand contortionist with x-ray vision to use one.
I used one as well for a couple of years when I wore a goatee; I liked the added precision.
I did toy with the idea of buying a "real" straight razor for a while, but the prices and all required additional paraphernalia (strop, paste, whetstone, etc) always seemed like too much of a hassle.
That's why I bought a shavette instead of a straight razor. No mucking around with honing etc and a hell of a lot cheaper.