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Straight razor shaving...
Chasaway

Posted on 06/26/2014 12:28:00 PM PDT by Chasaway

I need some straight razor advice, from some straight razor veterans. I've been shaving with a safety razor, mug and brush for 12 years. I've moved to a shavette straight razor in the last 3 months.

It seems to me that moving to a pure straight razor will mean sending razors off to be honed 3-4 times per year @ around $30 per pop.

Besides the "romance" and general badass-ness of using a true straight razor, what would be the advantages/disadvantages of moving to a pure straight razor/throat cutter?


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KEYWORDS: grooming; shaving; straightrazor
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To: Chasaway; Tax-chick

I have no regrets.

They need to know. They really need to know.


121 posted on 06/26/2014 2:19:45 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Marie
You’re supposed to kill things and take things and be harry... dammit. You are male. Enjoy that. Lord knows, we appreciate it.

MARRY ME !!! ; )

122 posted on 06/26/2014 2:19:50 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Marie

I agree. But then you tell them and they ignore you ...

*sigh*


123 posted on 06/26/2014 2:21:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Let the storm rage on ... the cold never bothered me anyway.)
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To: roamer_1

Sorry, brother! But I was already clubbed over the head and dragged back to a cave.

It was shockingly easy for me to snare a hairy beast of my own. All I had to do was appreciate the male and offer him a sammich. Next thing I knew, he was claiming me as his own and giving me all of his money. It all happened pretty fast...

Over the years, he’s pretty happy with what I’ve done with the money; thus, I’ve been able to keep him. (Plus, there’s always more sammiches... and roasts. He really likes my roast.)


124 posted on 06/26/2014 2:25:00 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Chasaway
Dude! That’s a beard.

*shrugs* Had it really long for a while, braided, but it gets in the way a lot... You really haven't lived till you get your beard caught in a body grinder... So now it is just mostly about keeping it under control and not being a vanity.

125 posted on 06/26/2014 2:25:23 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Tax-chick

I am one of those guys who also has a fair amount of American Indian genes; this is one of the reasons why I do shave my face - I do not grow facial hair evenly (there are some spots in my “beard zone” that simply will not grow any hair). I tried several time to grow a mustache or partial beard, but it just does not work for me. First it takes a long time for my facial hair to grow beyond the stubble pahse and I cannot grow a full beard because of the Hair Free Zones. So, I just say, “to heck with it” and shave my face.


126 posted on 06/26/2014 2:26:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Chasaway
Oh, stop. I’m not doing this because it’s easier and/or faster. I enjoy the experience.

A good cut-throat shave is a "bubble bath" for men

127 posted on 06/26/2014 2:26:15 PM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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To: roamer_1

Oh, crap. My daughter wants to know if you’re single and if you’re 20-30 pounds ‘overweight’...

(She’s 22 and too interested.)


128 posted on 06/26/2014 2:27:20 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: roamer_1

(She also likes fuzzy men who hunt... do you hunt?)


129 posted on 06/26/2014 2:28:05 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Marie
All I had to do was appreciate the male and offer him a sammich.

Do you have a sister and is she available? ;-)
130 posted on 06/26/2014 2:28:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: papertyger

“...A good cut-throat shave is a “bubble bath” for men...”

That’s perfect!


131 posted on 06/26/2014 2:28:53 PM PDT by Chasaway (Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
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To: roamer_1

WTH is a body grinder?!!

And how would you get your beard caught in it?!!


132 posted on 06/26/2014 2:29:42 PM PDT by Chasaway (Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
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To: Army Air Corps

Apparently, my 22 year old daughter had taken an unnatural interest in this thread. I’m supposed to ‘pick out a good one’...

*sigh*


133 posted on 06/26/2014 2:29:57 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Marie

Perhaps, “terribly keen” but not unnatural interest...


134 posted on 06/26/2014 2:30:54 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Nothing wrong with that. You are what you are.


135 posted on 06/26/2014 2:31:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Let the storm rage on ... the cold never bothered me anyway.)
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To: Marie

I know, now.

Now, I KNOW!!

[No back, chest (or legs or anything else) stubble]

Written. Starred. Noted. Flagged.


136 posted on 06/26/2014 2:31:50 PM PDT by Chasaway (Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
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To: Marie

Heh. My 23-year-old daughter is probably out with her dog or at a car show ;-).


137 posted on 06/26/2014 2:31:58 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Let the storm rage on ... the cold never bothered me anyway.)
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To: Marie
Sorry, brother! But I was already clubbed over the head and dragged back to a cave.

*sigh*... yeah, that won't work out too good...

It was shockingly easy for me to snare a hairy beast of my own. All I had to do was appreciate the male and offer him a sammich. Next thing I knew, he was claiming me as his own and giving me all of his money. It all happened pretty fast... Over the years, he’s pretty happy with what I’ve done with the money; thus, I’ve been able to keep him. (Plus, there’s always more sammiches... and roasts. He really likes my roast.)

You tell him for me - that's one lucky man!

*perks up* do you have a sister???? :D

138 posted on 06/26/2014 2:32:14 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Oh, she’s ‘terribly keen’ alright. Once we started talking about hairy men who hunt and roast meat over a fire, she lit up like a wolf spotting a herd of deer.

I’m going to force her to make her own account to introduce y’all.


139 posted on 06/26/2014 2:34:03 PM PDT by Marie (When are they going to take back Obama's peace prize?)
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To: Tax-chick

Indeed.

When I was a young buck, I was a little self conscious about it because of girls I knew who would talk openly about how they adored guys with chest hair and I would think to myself, “Well, that puts me out of the running, eh?”. Thankfully, I stopped being self-conscious about it by the time I graduated from high school.


140 posted on 06/26/2014 2:35:14 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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