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Do you shave with a straight also? I’ve been shaving with them for over 11 years now. Like estate pipes, I have a number of estate razors that I find in various states of disrepair and then restore them. I’m just guessing but is that a Wade & Butcher or a Joseph Reynolds? Nice one.
It has been proven that people with handle bar moustaches are necrophilia's, and have some serious mental issues, not that I would ever judge as everyone is entitled to their kinks.
This is great! The more the merrier and the less likely we will be to be legislated/marketed out of existence... unfortunately today everything has to be looked at through that lens... our hobby is under constant assault from people who know little about it and the more we have in our ranks, the stronger we all are. Great Work!
I shave with straights and double edge saftey razors. The one in the photo is an 1800s G. Johnson I got in an estate sale several years ago, and can easily out shave my modern Dovos. All original including the buffalo horn scales.?
Awesome and good stuff man. That is a nice razor. I can echo your words, most of my old estate razors shave better than my modern ones.
I picked up this old Packwood off Ebay about eight months ago
Circa 1790 - 1820
and it took a bit to restore and a bit more to hone it properly because of the smile and frown, but it is a great shaver. I dropped the Pegasus bolster on the floor of my shop and it vanished into that universe that only shop floors and black holes know where things go. If I wasn't so bald I would have torn out my hair
I was unable to salvage the scales but I made these new ones out of honey horn.
And as mentioned, I lost the bolster.
Here is what I shaved with today.
7/8" R. Schlenker-New York; Gold Krone with brass liners I made to fix the scales
Doug Korn 28mm knot synthetic
Castle Forbes Lime Essential Oils
Layrite No. 9 AS
Keep on keeping on Brother
Gratz on your teachings @FurCoat Where were you when I started? Would of been nice to have a personal trainer or should I say advisor? But thanks to @chasingembers his video helped alot on the breath method. Now I'm using that, retrohaling and the advanced method. Been watching Muttonchop piper on YouTube. 
That's the best part of this hobby and why we are here on this forum. There are no secrets and we help each other enjoy piping with what we have learned...and I learn something new every day. We share our experieces and keep an open mind when others share with us. Pipe smokers are great people.Gratz on your teachings @FurCoat Where were you when I started? Would of been nice to have a personal trainer or should I say advisor? But thanks to @chasingembers his video helped alot on the breath method. Now I'm using that, retrohaling and the advanced method. Been watching Muttonchop piper on YouTube.
Wouldn't want to meet you in the dark. The
deciding factor the straight razor. . .
It's like you say on this forum. I'm sure there's controversy, but it goes over my head, especially since I stopped being controversial.
Tried shaving with a straight razor a few times and cut the piss out of my face. It took years to happen upon the best remedy for shaving: a full beard. From time to time I think about returning to being clean-shaven, but I know I'm kidding myself. In my incipient old age, if I can find a way to not do something, I quite usually choose to do nothing.
I'm sure you're right about that link, but I don't find it necessarily true that giving the dead a little love is necessarily supported by a share of belfry bats, particularly if it's just a little kissing. Now if we're talking the commingling of body fluids, with protection, we might judge such an error.
But Harris, kudos to you for the link.