How many of us shave in the 'old-fashioned' way.

[Harbo]

Just watched some of the shaving videos - those experts shave 3x and take 20 mins!?

Rod

 

[paulm]

Yep, I take three passes too Rod, each in a different direction, doesn't take 20 mins though as I don't have to film myself and talk to camera :lol:

More like ten minutes or so, still longer than the "press and plough" modern ones if you do only one pass with them, but a better result with less irritation and more fun too for some reason or maybe I should just get out more ! :lol:

Cheers, Paul

 

[Alexam]

Love a nice close shave and feel rough if I leave it for one day. Used to use the fat-Boy type years ago, but prefer the twin blade razor, but the blades are a silly price and more difficult to find since Gillette went tripple blade and upwards. Can't get on with electric at all and after 73 years, am not likely to change.

Alex

 

[SteveF]

i used the Lidl razors
spent £20 on loads of packs about 18 months ago
i only shave 3 times a week but reckon i have 6 months of them left

hope they still do them

Steve

 

[t8hants]

Cheap twin blades if I am in a rush, or a 80 year old safety with full soap and brush if I want to do it proper. I did use my late father-in-laws safety, but I lost it on holiday, gutted.

 

[DannyEssex]

I'm almost 30 and can bearly grow a goatee so its just the normal Gillette mach 3 type for me. Would like to grow a beard but look like a lazy teenager if I let it grow :lol:

 

[Jacob]

I inherited my grandpas early safety razor. Too young to grow a beard so we effed about with it, broke it and binned it.
Something like this

The blade was like a short section of a cutthroat which would swivel. If you threaded the strop through it worked by friction - you pulled the razor along the strop and it would swivel to strop one side, reverse direction and it'd present the other side. Bloody clever!

I don't know which came first but the Bailey plane design and the Gillette safety razor (later than the "autostrop" I imagine) have a lot in common - basically a blade unit holding a thin blade but making it work like a thick one. Disposable on the razor, easily sharpenable on the plane.

 

[Benchwayze]

Think I saw one on eBay... A cousin of the Rolls-Razor. Noisy ruddy things they were. :shock:

 

[Robbo3]

That would be around 1963 I reckon... The year there was 1/4" thick ice on both sides of the bathroom window! :shock:

Started snowing on Boxing Day 1962 & the roads weren't clear of snow until about April.

I remember a gang of men with shovels clearing the snow. They were having to throw it way over their heads to keep it from falling back. We were cut off for about 10 days & the first vehicle out was a tractor used for moving the muck. The farmer reached the shops & filled the bucket with milk, bread & other essentials. Bread wasn't sliced or even wrapped in those days but I don't remember anyone being worried about it being dirty, just relieved to get something to eat.

 

[Richard863]

Hi John
The five blade jobs work well while taking a shower using only water as a lubricant. Having bought the so called better 5 system I determined to use it until the blades are used up, rather than throw it away. Then go back to the 3ers.
Not tight fisted just my age.

 

[Benchwayze]

That would be around 1963 I reckon... The year there was 1/4" thick ice on both sides of the bathroom window! :shock:

Started snowing on Boxing Day 1962 & the roads weren't clear of snow until about April.

I remember a gang of men with shovels clearing the snow. They were having to throw it way over their heads to keep it from falling back. We were cut off for about 10 days & the first vehicle out was a tractor used for moving the muck. The farmer reached the shops & filled the bucket with milk, bread & other essentials. Bread wasn't sliced or even wrapped in those days but I don't remember anyone being worried about it being dirty, just relieved to get something to eat.

I was stationed in Portsmouth at the time. Took my new wife down to Pompey where we had found digs. The drive was 'memorable'. From Newbury right through to Hampshire I was driving along roads that were hemmed in totally, by huge walls of snow. I was an extremely experienced driver. :roll: .. all of 18 months behind me! What a journey! One or two 'close-shaves' :mrgreen: Is it coincidence, that driving in snow now, doesn't phase me? Happy days.

 

[Benchwayze]

Hi John
The five blade jobs work well while taking a shower using only water as a lubricant. Having bought the so called better 5 system I determined to use it until the blades are used up, rather than throw it away. Then go back to the 3ers.
Not tight fisted just my age.

Friend of mine got threatened with a bar from his health-club, for shaving in the shower. I suppose in communal showers there could be a problem though!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I had a three head electric Phillips for my 15th birthday. I used to get sent home from school to shave (unusual for being blond), which being a mile's walk, a bus and a train journey away meant it wasn't worth going back that day. I left school and grew a beard. Half the girls in my local hairdressers learned to cut beards on mine, as I got a free haircut and if they screwed it up they just shaved me and within a few days it was tidy again. Nowadays I haven't much hair left, so swmbo or one one of my children get the clippers with a 3mm or 6mm gauge on them and start at the bottom, finishing at the top. I can't remember shaving - it was in the eighties sometime I think.

 

[Benchwayze]

You got sent home from school because you needed a shave? :shock: What sort of school did you go to Phil?

I left school in 1954, and even that far back, that would have been seen as draconian interference with personal liberty.

Six months after leaving school I joined HMS Ganges, where shaving was of course compulsory; and they didn't bother to show you how! :mrgreen: Probably so the Instructors could have a quiet, sadistic giggle as they surveyed a motley crew of kids, sporting bits of tissue-paper and plasters all over their faces.

When you 'grew-up' and joined the Fleet, if you wished to grow a beard you had to get permission. You were 'awarded' two weeks stoppage of leave, until it was deemed you looked presentable enough to be seen in public. I tried, but I could never grow a full 'set'. So I had to shave off a nice goatee and 'tash'. I never bothered again. SWMBO doesn't like beards. Which is a relief, as I think she looks better without one too. :mrgreen:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

A (very) minor public school. Late '60s. I would get sent home for not shaving, having hair that touched the collar, or sideburns below the horizontal line outwards of where the bottom of the ear joined the face.

 

[Jonzjob]

I work on the principle that if doG had wanted us to have a clean, non hairy chin then he would have given us one to start with and I have had a beard since 1973. That includes the last 12 months that I was in the R.A.F.at Brize Norton. I was the only sergeant in the mess of 1500 SNCOs with a beard and it was good fun too!

It gets trimmed about once every 2 weeks and that's the way it will stay. And, as a matter of interest, neither me or SWMBO have used any kind os soap/shampoo on our hair in well over 23 years. Neither of us have dreadlocks, nost normal healthy clean hair with none of the c r a p that goes into the scalp from sham-poo. Plus, I have no idea just how much extra wine we must have bought with what we havn't given to 'Big Pharma' and all of the noxious chemicals they sell to the poor sods who keep them in their chemical business!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -hair.html

 

[Benchwayze]

But John..

Nature didn't give me a beard to start with. I had to wait fifteen years! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[RobinBHM]

I cant stand those multiblade razers, 90% of the time is spent unclogging them. Ive recently bought a beard trimmer -fantastic 3mins job done.

 

[Racers]

I haven't shaved for 24 years, why bother it just grows back.

Pete

 

[Benchwayze]

I haven't shaved for 24 years, why bother it just grows back.

Pete

In my case Pete, for the same reason I bathe/wash at least once a day; despite the fact I get dirty again. It's how one feels I suppose. If you prefer a beard, great. At least you can strain your soup! :grin: