So I just shaved with a straight razor for the first time. Someone explain to me why we aren't using those anymore because though they're a bit harder to handle than modern safety razors, my skin is so much smoother and so much less irritated. And though the razor and strop were expensive, over time I'll be saving money by not having to buy the disposable jew.
So, what gives? Is it all a money scam to get people to buy disposable blades?
It's inconvenient.
Sounds like a poor excuse.
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>Is it all a money scam to get people to buy disposable blades?
Kinda. The other side of it is it's time consuming, no one wants to re hone their razor every other month or strop the razor every time it needs to be used. Back in the day they didn't have the one razor, they had 3 or 4 because even they couldn't be arsed with honing every month. Not to mention they aren't the safest thing to use.
Stropping takes what, a minute? You do it once every time you shave and that's it. As for safety, it's completely safe if you aren't a huge retard and don't have Parkinson's.
People prefer to use what is easier and even with the modern razors they tend to fucked up, i relate certain problems with the inability to do things that you're supposed to know by the hardest way, like bathing with cold water, learn cooking without hand protection and for yourself, knowing how to handle a knife, wash your own clothes without the machine, ask different vendors to compare prices (they always go to a single place when there could be a more cheaper), etc
Not even. You shave like 3 to 4 times, then the next time you shave you spend a minute stropping and that's it.
You strop before you shave, that is.
Have fun knicking your jugular with that.
Wow, cute parkinsons remark. Keep knicking your manlet face with a Razor you bitchmaid fuck.
Fucking agreed
Well yeah I know I used to shave with one. I had two beautiful Dovos. But I accidentally dropped one into the sink and junked it. The other I sometimes used, but I just couldn't be arsed with honing every month, I've got other time consuming shit to be doing.
I mean the other side of it is Gillette pretty much took the market by storm. Quicker, easy and 'cheaper' to buy Gillette. Its good you've revived this old fashion, but no one else is willing to.
I can't tell if you're saying straight razors don't shave well or if you're saying having a massive unkempt neckbeard is the way to go.
AFAIK you don't need to hone if you strop regularly and store properly.
In my younger days I had a dovo throat razor because that’s what everyone used but too many accidents happen I only trust barbers to shave me with them now... I was in the shower using one and I slipped on some body wash going down the drain, I accidentally cut myself up really bad and had to be cirumsized as an adult which was traumatising I had butterfly stitches on my penis and it was the worst pain I ever had to go through
Convenience and expediency versus quality...
Sacrificing the finesse and skill needed to run a straight razor, the disposable razor is #1 on the market, because a guy can grab it, run down yesterday's stubble accumulation, and be good to go... Whereas a straight razor takes time, patience, and skill, a disposable doesn't.
Thus, people just looking for a quick shave will opt for the disposables or the electronic shavers.
Or, you could opt for the truly Alpha move of growing a beard... Because beards are a symbol of knowledge and power, whereas a babyface is a symbol of pedestrianism and just being yet another brick in the wall...
Eventually you'll need to use a very fine honing stone to recondition it, which is it's own skill to develop. I think in the old days, you'd go to a guy who just sharpens blades for a living, but those shops are pretty rare now I think.
I got tired of the prep myself. Well off men in the past used to keep a set of 5 or 7 razors so they wouldn't have to strop every morning while getting ready for work, and now I understand why.
I've settled on dorco safety razors--super cheap, always sharp, and I'm not tossing out tons of packaging and plastic cartridges.
They make electric razors for pussies like you, so don't worry
Yes you do. You will notice before long when you need to strop the razor while shaving. If you don't keep on top of honing the razor you will eventually permanently damage the fine edge.
>I was in the shower
I feel like you're the reason hair dryers have instructions not to use them in the shower.
Dude... you're not supposed to use it in the shower. Do you chop vegetables for dinner while you're driving home?
I am growing a beard. Except it's a muttonstache because neckbeards suck.
>Eventually you'll need to use a very fine honing stone to recondition it, which is it's own skill to develop.
My god is it. My advice to guys looking to start doing this buy a cheap razor and practise with it. Do not go buy a new Dovo razor and junk it, start with a carbon steel razor too. Stainless steel razors take alot of work to get right again.
Very nice. Pics?
I was young and wasn’t thinking & now I have spent the rest of my life with 1/4 of my penis missing. Trust me, some woman like scars but not when they’re on your penis.
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>My god is it.
I don't even shave (beard here), but I do indeed do a lot of knife/sword/axe sharpening, and I can 700,000% agree with this sentiment. Razor honing and getting that fine razor's edge on a blade is a real pain in the dick sometimes, especially with nicer steels...
...crazy. I used to shave in my jeans because I was afraid of that kind of thing.
What do chicks say when they see it? Honestly curious.
Uh, sure.
Johnny Bobbit got into porn after getting his dick cut off. Some people are into that shit.
I got one with the changeable blades for $11. once you stop cutting your face with it it does give a nice clean shave and doesn't get clogged up with hair like the disposable
>Razor honing and getting that fine razor's edge on a blade is a real pain in the dick sometimes, especially with nicer steels...
Oh yeah...
>Go to strop the razor
>Accidentally get it wrong and roll over the razors edge
>Back to the stone
I jockey a chainsaw for a living and I am forever grinding up chain. I could just not be fucked any more to spend the same time honing a razor blade. Life is just too damn short.
Sweet stache-chops, user. 10/10.
Amen. I got better shit to worry about than whether or not my razor is going to be sharp enough every morning...
I haven’t used a cut throat razor since that day and I didn’t have health insurance so it cost me literally ... the person I sleep with said it bothered her a bit at first only because it’s unusual but over time it doesn’t bother her anymore and when it’s inside her she can’t feel the difference, but honestly I don’t know if that’s true or if my mother is just being nice
We just don't have the same routine as in 1901...
>start earlier, work later
>commute like a faggot
>no housewif so you make your own coffee and breakfast or get it on the run
>more bills, errands, miscellaneous shit eating up your time
I only shave once every three days or so, so no big issue for me.
For a second I got scared I might have stropped wrong and fucked up the razor. I took a hair and just sliding it slightly against the blade sliced it in half, so I think I'm good for now. I'm gonna have to buy a whetstone though.
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Exactly. Plus, our manufacturing and technology are so far advanced that a disposable hunk of plastic with 1-3 razors in them is far more convenient than a straight razor these days.
Better yet are the electrics these days.... I rocked a nice little electric in the Army a bunch of years back that kept my face push-ups-free through armed friggen conflict, so that's saying something for the electrics, too!
you said it your self it harder to handle people are lazy
>you'd go to a guy who just sharpens blades
my village has a skilled sharpener
How tf do you expect someone to join when it's not an invite?
>responding to spam bots
>Trust me, some woman like scars but not when they’re on your penis.
Unless they are jewish
>protip: don't join the shit the spambots are advertising...
That's ridiculous. Grow a proper beard to hide that neck fat.
And jewish women aren't so bad... Plus, daddy buys you a business when you marry her!
because too many people like yourself an hero'd using one.
