Feeling Sheepish

[bassbug]

I'm reading through the knife sharpening thread when it occurs to me.....

I (good-naturedly) mock the OCD pipe smokers that must follow the exact procedure for choosing, packing, lighting, smoking and cleaning.

This is exactly my approach to sharpening and honing blades and tools.

The first step is admitting you have a problem....

 

[ashdigger]

Welcome Baaaaaack to OCD

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I learned when using straight raZors to follow a progression.

 

[Alex.Jr]

Don’t get me started on safety razors, blades and soaps…

 

[bassbug]

No, no...get started. I've been thinking of shaving the beard and going back to my straight razors.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

The best safety blade holder is tue GEM Micromatic using a PTFE blade.

The most affordable DE is a late 1950’s red tip Gillette using an Astra SP blade.

My most effective straight is a
Wester Bros, Salamander, or Geneva 6/8”.

I use stones, films, and diamond pasted balsa

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

No, no...get started. I've been thinking of shaving the beard and going back to my straight razors.

Why shave?!? I quit using those nasty torture devices when I was 19.

My wife, nor my kids have ever seen me in that horrendous ? “clean-shaven” look. Hell, I am so old now that there are only two of my siblings still living who could potentially remember me before I grew my beard/mustache. ?

 

[Casual]

Why shave?!?

Good Question!

When I inevitably need to restrict my pipe smoking to a moss covered cave deep in the forest, I will need to travel there in a disguise that hides my face from the smoking enforcement volucrine robots.

I can wear a Santa moustache and beard over my normally clean shaven face, but you bearders are out of luck.

 

[bullet08]

Thank God I don't have to shave but once a week. Being an Asian has its benefit, or not. Depends on if you want facial hair.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

 

[kcghost]

If it isn't one thing it's another.

 

[FurCoat]

Why shave?!? I quit using those nasty torture devices when I was 19.

My wife, nor my kids have ever seen me in that horrendous ? “clean-shaven” look. Hell, I am so old now that there are only two of my siblings still living who could potentially remember me before I grew my beard/mustache. ?

Same here. I haven't seen my face since I was 16.

 

[Alex.Jr]

No, no...get started. I've been thinking of shaving the beard and going back to my straight razors.

DO IT.

 

[Alex.Jr]

Why shave?!? I quit using those nasty torture devices when I was 19.

My wife, nor my kids have ever seen me in that horrendous ? “clean-shaven” look. Hell, I am so old now that there are only two of my siblings still living who could potentially remember me before I grew my beard/mustache. ?

I’ve maintained a beard for about 12 years and recently got back into shaving.

It’s not for the looks or anything else, it’s a relaxation ritual just like pipe smoking.

Take your time, from the safety razor or SR, the soap or cream, the brush, the lather, picking the blade, trying different shaving techniques and so on…

Very satisfying and totally different from that miserable in a hurry wake up call cheap foam and dull mach 3 bullshit.

Like quietly smoking a pipe vs rushing to finish a cigarette to get back to the office.

 

[Chasing Embers]

 

[Alex.Jr]

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Nice! Over here, some merkurs, fatip gentile and Edwin jagger in the collection.

Rockwell 6C on the way and almost pulling the trigger on both Fatip OC and a Lo Storto OC… we’ll see…

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Why shave?!? I quit using those nasty torture devices when I was 19.

My wife, nor my kids have ever seen me in that horrendous ? “clean-shaven” look. Hell, I am so old now that there are only two of my siblings still living who could potentially remember me before I grew my beard/mustache. ?

Shaving depends on several factors. Are you self employed, is your job opportunities competing with younger folks, do you look better with or without?

i kept a beard from 1983 through early 2000’s.

 

[OldWill]

There are shaving forums out there, but I just can't resist, so let me throw in that my old gillettes shave the best, which I do each and every day. My daily go-to is a 1950s "TV" razor that belonged to my Dad, and I had rhodium plated.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Nice! Over here, some merkurs, fatip gentile and Edwin jagger in the collection.

Rockwell 6C on the way and almost pulling the trigger on both Fatip OC and a Lo Storto OC… we’ll see…

Merkurs, Gillettes, a Double Duck, and a 200 year old G. Johnson.

 

[Alex.Jr]

Merkurs, Gillettes, a Double Duck, and a 200 year old G. Johnson.

Time to get some vintage Gillettes in my collection ?‍