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#264

Straight Razors... 3 Years, 3 Months ago

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Any thoughts? Have not tried one myself yet. Folks say if cared for can they can last generations and you won't have to throw out all those razor cartridges. However to care for it you will likely end up using a decent amount of paper/cotton, mineral oil, and alcohol... of course less of this is necessary for the stainless steel variants compared to high carbon steel...

Any one have any experiences? Is the "closer shave" aspect all hype?

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Re:Straight Razors... 3 Years, 3 Months ago	Karma: 3
a giant unprotected knife... agents my skin... sounds dangerous...but then professor David Kelly at hampshire collage had a kinetic shaver that worked by pulling a string...that he said worked great till it mangled his face when it broke... so maybe shaving is just a dangerous thing to do... there is a romantic side to the straight blade...

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Re:Straight Razors... 3 Years, 2 Months ago	Karma: 3
So... I'm sorry to say... I found a critical flaw with the ultra thin hollow ground razors like I had (easy to get really sharp don't hold an edge as long though and...) their fragile dropped it while shaving the other day and chipped the tip so no more fine work with it :-\ will still shave on the rest of the blade but...

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Re:Straight Razors... 3 Years, 2 Months ago	Karma: 3
not all that is new is bad...

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Re:Straight Razors... 3 Years, 2 Months ago	Karma: 3
So I took my 360 grit stone to it and worked out the chip in a hacky slope point way and then sharpened the thing up on an 8k/12k stone combo and its shaving again despite the rather rough abuse.... the real save on waste may be the bar shaving soap though rather than the razor itself avoiding the cans and propellants and what not...

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Re:Straight Razors... 1 Year, 11 Months ago	Karma: 3
Ok I've fallen in love with straight razors since.... double edge when I need to travel... Something about using the same blade from 3 generations back.... does take a bit of a learning curve though.

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