My new shaving kit

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Umcknifeguy
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My new shaving kit

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With the high cost and poor quality of disposables, got tired of throwing away money. So I started usind this kinfolks straight razor and gilette safety razor. Very close clean shave.

The other is a rehandled jack knife ben. Havent used it due to a little rust on the edge. Going to try to hone or strop it clean.
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Re: My new shaving kit

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I agree.

Interesting part of using a straight for me is that it doesn't hurt my arthritic wrists. Haven't used a DE since I was in high school. Got a nice Gillette from the 60's but no blades.

As I currently have about 30 straights in shave ready condition, buying blades for that DE isn't a big priority.

A week or so back I was scraping my face and the wife had some movie on TV. Whatever it was had some of the big band music going. Sure sets a feller's mind to wandering when he's got a hundred and fifty year old razor against his neck and big band music going in the back ground. Kind of like a time warp.

Welcome to the straight side. LOL
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Re: My new shaving kit

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Hmmmmmm ::hmm:: Very interesting! Maybe I should join the movement!
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Re: My new shaving kit

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I don't know--I already worry about fallin down in the shower if I had one of them things in my hand it'd be fatal for sure--I'm sticking with the blue plastic throw away's
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Re: My new shaving kit

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TripleF wrote:Hmmmmmm ::hmm:: Very interesting! Maybe I should join the movement!
It can get expensive.. :shock:

Especially when ya have a 50 or 60 day rotation of razors. LOL

However, two good razors will outlast you if you take care of 'em.
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