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?
LOL! other than I am old enough to be her daddy....
*rollseyes* I am a redneck boy in the Montana Rockies. That is a silly question.
Yeah. Don’t underestimate the will of a young woman who’s set her sights. (hubs didn’t have a chance.)
“...Apparently, my 22 year old daughter had taken an unnatural interest in this thread. I’m supposed to ‘pick out a good one’...”
HEY!! I STARTED the damn thread! And I’ve got hair EVERYWHERE! Even places I shouldn’t have hair!
[I’m married and unavailable, but still....I’d like to be considered!]
Why isn’t there a FR dating site? Many people with common interests and foundation of beliefs...
I think this would work. All the singles put themselves out there. There are many women who’re desperate for a solid man and lots of men who’d appreciate traditional women.
Not if you’re married, you aren’t. You’re a RED flag on the field, my good sir.
Off limits by anyone with half a heart.
Yeah, but still...
You didn’t know that until I told you!
And I never got a card or a call...nothing.
[Marie...you HAVE to know I’m goofing around, here.]
But, still....
Seriously. Please know that you were in the running until the ‘married’ part. Then you became neuter.
:D
Straight razor? Were you shaving with a gay razor?? LOL!!
Dammit...
You can only imagine how that is goofing up my mojo.
C
Make sure you get yourself a 16 oz. can of Ballistol. I checked a few shaving sites, and they all seem to recommend it for rust prevention. I shoot black powder firearms, so I keep some around for those, plus other various applications.
Just know that the smell of the stuff drives some people batty, and others love it (including a few women).
I’m sure your wife’s fine with all of your mojo being focused in her general direction. (BTW, all of your hair concerns should be directed around her preferences, not FR’s. She wants you smooth, you go smooth. She wants fuzz, you go fuzz. You get more play that way.)
I do love FR. A cute 22 year old puts interest out there and every hot, harry, hunting man clams up tighter than a fat lady’s bikini.
“Do you have a sister?!”
Wait...
“You actually have a young daughter with a young body who was homeschooled, shoots, raised right, and shares all your values... yeah... no.”
Sorry fellas. (I have to laugh) You gotta be faster on the draw than that.
We live on a military post and she’ll be single for exactly 2.4 minutes.
All of you guys who ask “why can’t I find a good, traditional woman...?” Yup. Here’s your answer. Traditional women, who are decently attractive, and who value real men, are snatched up so fast that your head will spin. (I was.)
That was the window. That was it. She’s out on a date with a soldier as we speak. (Dinner and a movie, then straight home. He called while this thread was running on.) Once he offers her anything concrete, she’ll be faithful unto death. That’s what good women do. Had any one of you stepped up, she’d be chatting with YOU online and would’ve brushed him off. (Good women are singular in that way.)
So here’s the lesson: You find a good girl who actually appreciates your hard-working, harry, hunting, gun-loving, man-butt; you grab on immediately and don’t let go or someone wiser will.
THIS is exactly why good women are so hard to find. You’ve got a window of less than a day when they’re single to sniff them out and lock them in. Because someone, somewhere, has been waiting for the opportunity to pounce.
If I were ten years younger, I most certainly would have taken the offer.
And you do realize that a young, traditional woman appreciates an older man? (As long as he’s willing to give her babies.)
We’ll see how this date goes... she may contact you yet. ;)
Thanks for starting this thread. I have been giving serious thought to switching to shaving with a straight razor.
Okay, this is how you get the best of everything:
Look up “GeoFatboy” on Youtube. He fronts for an online shaving site called “Shave Nation,” and has an extensive video collection of various razors, creams, and techniques. By far the best, but “Sharpology” is no slouch, either.
Next, get you a Feather “Artisans Club” Straight Razor. They take a proprietary (though not too expensive) disposable blade that is generally acknowledged to be SHARPER, and thus less irritating, than any regular straight razor.
Feather is a Japanese blade maker that also makes surgical scalpels.
These blades go into the heavy straight razor (somewhat like a shavette) like the old gillette injectors, so you never have to touch the blade.
No stroping. No sending them off to be reground, and best of all, no screwing them up till you learn to sharpen them correctly.
This is the ONLY regime that I’ve found to satisfy my little girl (Ow daddy, your whispers (sic) HURT!) who would complain immediately AFTER I shaved with the Multi-Ginsu disposables.
OK... he’s not offering you the best of *everything*... (some people came late to the thread)
I do have to drive home one point... You either get a good woman when they’re young or wait until they’re widowed. That’s the window of opportunity.
A young, traditional woman won’t knock you out if you’re older. They’ll see that as more of a stable provider. When I was 18, I was scoping out men from 18 to 50. (I was not stupid and shallow. I was looking at the big picture and age wasn’t the factor. Yes. A man can be sexy at 50.)
So you have to ask yourself, are you cool with a *wise* woman who takes all of this into account? (Who wants to be pregnant. Really, really pregnant. Because traditional women who adore men really want those men to make them pregnant.)
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen men balk. They plead and whine, but (when push comes to shove) they haven’t thought it through.
The girls are out there, but the men have got to really want the whole package. Too many times, I’ve seen good men pull back like a terrified horse being confronted with a plastic bag when a good girl lets her interest be known. They cry that they want a woman who’ll love them for what they are, but they sure as hell don’t want to be pinned down.
Guess what? The type of woman who’ll love a hairy, hunting, manly-man will also be the type to pin you down.
So another one slips away. Then they cry that there are no traditional girls out there.
Yes. There are. But that’s not what you really want. If you guys really wanted a real woman (who wants to bear your offspring) who’d adore your hairy, manly butts - you’d jump at the opportunity. Instead, I hear nothing but crickets and bitter regret.
What you guys *really* want is a woman who loves you as you are, but doesn’t want the attachments. You guys want a feminist cowgirl. (And they are out there. They’re usually a little bit insane, but they’re out there.) Someone who’s fine with the casual relationship, but still likes to go to the range. (Please trust me. These women do serious damage.)
Basically, the men want a buddy they can get dirty with on occasion. They don’t want the girl who’ll love them as they are, go shooting, bear and raise their children, and serve them a roast every night.
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