Sir, nice clean shave ya got there. If I dare to suggest you may want to see what Rick recommends in the way of barber shears.
Wasn't there a nice Husqvarna shown on the 2 cycle thread?
Might not be enough...
Rick (Pawn Star) Harrison's Micro Touch One Razor
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Wasn't there a nice Husqvarna shown on the 2 cycle thread?
Might not be enough...
ACORN
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I am using a Gillette that is probably 40-50 years old and it works fine. While Christmas shopping the other night I remembered I was getting low on blades. The store wanted $8 for ten double edge blades. Amazon had 100 Shark brand for $8.95 delivered. I'll let you know how they work out for me if you're interested.
calmex
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Your post is one of those posts that can take a dull, blasé day and just turn it around and just make it brighter. I often hope -- in my best days -- to post something so chuckle-worthy but rarely manage it. THAT was funny! Good post.
im sure Rick could get ya an old barber chair to go along with that shave
Aticus
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I have a bridge over the Mississippi that I'll sell you cheap. I mean it's really in good shape and only a little over a hundred years old.
shouldazagged
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I remember many years ago Gilette briefly pushed the idea that if you dropped your safety razor (containing one of their Blue Blades) you would knock it out of true and should immediately throw it away and buy another one. From them, of course.
I'll stick with the Good News throwaways, the ones without that lubricant strip that appears to spread slug slime on the user's face.
I'll stick with the Good News throwaways, the ones without that lubricant strip that appears to spread slug slime on the user's face.
I fooled 'em all...
Gillette, Schick, Wilkerson...I haven't shaved in about 30 years.
Gillette, Schick, Wilkerson...I haven't shaved in about 30 years.
+1 on the Good News sans slime strip.
That and a bar of Dial soap works for me.
That and a bar of Dial soap works for me.
I was in the store shopping for shampoo and my wife happened to be with me. She saw a bottle marked "Mens 3in1, Shampoo, body wash and shaving lotion". As I put it in the cart she remarked she was surprised they could get one product to do all that. I told her the contents was probably the same stuff as was in all the other bottles. Someone in marketing probably did a survey and found out how men actually used the product.
The marketing person must have been female or urban because I would have added "And removes corrosive primer residue."
The marketing person must have been female or urban because I would have added "And removes corrosive primer residue."
Cdog
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I have one. The shaver is fine for me.
The supplied blades aren't the best, but that's the only complaint I've had.
I hate shaving, but can't live with the atrocious looking beard I'm blessed to have.
The supplied blades aren't the best, but that's the only complaint I've had.
I hate shaving, but can't live with the atrocious looking beard I'm blessed to have.
williamlayton
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The art of shaving is not new.
You lather up with something and get a razor of some type and do it daily.
Some of you are far too anal for me.
Blessings
You lather up with something and get a razor of some type and do it daily.
Some of you are far too anal for me.
Blessings
chaparrito
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I have an assortment of old Gillette safety razors. Can't recommend them enough. They bring eye-watering money on Ebay but are worth every penny. You can still find them at estate and yard sales. I picked up a nice Fat Boy recently for ten dollars.
My 21 year old son shaves with one that belonged to my father, I use a slightly newer one made the same year I was born. Amazon has a wide selection of double edged blades and they're cheap. I've tried Merkurs and other modern safety razors and to me they just don't compare in heft and balance. I can't imagine anything that bald guy's shilling could be any better.
My 21 year old son shaves with one that belonged to my father, I use a slightly newer one made the same year I was born. Amazon has a wide selection of double edged blades and they're cheap. I've tried Merkurs and other modern safety razors and to me they just don't compare in heft and balance. I can't imagine anything that bald guy's shilling could be any better.
For those of you that don't like Paypal or eBay because they are anti-gun, you may add Gillette to that list. I have been buying Shick for over 40 years for that reason.
NJM15
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Looks like an old double edge to me used about 50 years ago
very easy to cut yourself if your not careful.
And no I wouldn't trust a pawnbroker anymore than a used car salesman
BearBio
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Worth $2000=He got it for $25 and will let you have it for ONLY $3500! ("Hey! I gotta make a profit too, you know")
What a deal!
Back to shaving==ANYTHING he uses will work of course==he's gotta have a THICK skin by now!
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I've been using a Double Edge Razor (I actually have 6 of them) that are ALL older than I am - I am 61. They all work fine and I use them every day. I also have 3 Badger Brushes ( one was my Dad's from the late 1940's, one I bought 37 years ago, and the 3rd was a gift from my son 5 years ago ) and have been using all of them along with Mug Soap since I started shaving, with the exception of when I was in College in the early 70's 'cause it wasn't "cool" to use your "old man's razor.
They do give an excellent shave and I find them a lot more maneuverable than the big headed multi blade razors. If you have not used one, I suppose you need you develop a good technique and experience the learning curve just like anything else new. Sort of like switching from an Auto to a Revolver.
The blades I buy are about $15.00 per 100 pack or .15 cents a blade. Each blade usually lasts me about a week, so I use about $8.00 worth of blades a year! My wife spends that in a month with her fancy 5 blade razors!
They do give an excellent shave and I find them a lot more maneuverable than the big headed multi blade razors. If you have not used one, I suppose you need you develop a good technique and experience the learning curve just like anything else new. Sort of like switching from an Auto to a Revolver.
The blades I buy are about $15.00 per 100 pack or .15 cents a blade. Each blade usually lasts me about a week, so I use about $8.00 worth of blades a year! My wife spends that in a month with her fancy 5 blade razors!
NCTexan
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Is that the river or the state...? I need to know before I enter my bid.
GatorFarmer
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They can be found at Walmart, near the checkout, with As Seen On Tv items. Thus you can buy one, see if you like it, and if it fails you, simply return it. Faces and facial hair vary greatly, what works for one guy won't for another.
Or you can just grow out your beard and trim it with a lighter.
Or you can just grow out your beard and trim it with a lighter.
A little better than a six decades ago as I was watching my great uncle shave, I asked, "Uncle Tony, why do you use that barber kind of razor instead of a Gilette like Dad uses?"
He responded, "Shaving with a straight razor is a useful skill for a man to have. When you are old enough, I'll teach you. Besides, someday, when you are married you will understand."
About 10 years later, Uncle Tony was good to his word and he set me up with a razor and taught me to use it. It was cool and awed my friends. But after a couple of years, I wound up in the Army and life in the barracks meant a return to safety razors.
Not many years after, I got married and was living off-post. One morning, running late, I picked up the clogged, dull, soggy matted mess that had been my razor, and my great uncle's words came back to me. "Yes! I was married and I understood!"
That evening the 4/8 Henckels he gave me when I turned 16 came out of the closet, the strop went into the bathroom. So except for hanging onto a good DE Gillette for those times I had to live in the billets, and these days a for traveling on the airlines. I have been gratefully using my meager collection of REAL razors for about half century now and have passed on Uncle Tony's wisdom to my sons and nephews.
He responded, "Shaving with a straight razor is a useful skill for a man to have. When you are old enough, I'll teach you. Besides, someday, when you are married you will understand."
About 10 years later, Uncle Tony was good to his word and he set me up with a razor and taught me to use it. It was cool and awed my friends. But after a couple of years, I wound up in the Army and life in the barracks meant a return to safety razors.
Not many years after, I got married and was living off-post. One morning, running late, I picked up the clogged, dull, soggy matted mess that had been my razor, and my great uncle's words came back to me. "Yes! I was married and I understood!"
That evening the 4/8 Henckels he gave me when I turned 16 came out of the closet, the strop went into the bathroom. So except for hanging onto a good DE Gillette for those times I had to live in the billets, and these days a for traveling on the airlines. I have been gratefully using my meager collection of REAL razors for about half century now and have passed on Uncle Tony's wisdom to my sons and nephews.
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