- Joined
- Friday September 28, 2018
- Location
- Wigan, Lancashire
A few days ago Mrs 998 brought me home a really cheap and nasty Solimo brand shavette. It really is a shonky piece of crap and came with 30 no name (made in Germany) DE blades to snap in half. These are not nice blades, they are very not nice indeed. But of course I’m not going to break any of my good ones to put on the end of a shitty bit of bamboo and Chinesium that I’m going to drag nervously across my face am I? That would be stupid, much better to use a nasty, unbranded piece of crap. Much more sensible.
Being the adventurous/foolhardy type I decided to go it and, amazingly, didn’t skin myself or even cut myself up even a little bit. I actually enjoyed the process and ended up with a socially acceptable shave, albeit far from the closest I’ve ever achieved with any of my DEs.
Sooooo, now I want to try a proper straight razor, and as Christmas is around the corner, I’ve asked Mrs 998 for one, and she’s agreed.
In practice this would normally involve me looking at endless razors on eBay, then buying the prettiest thing I can find that is right at the top of my price range, despite that being a really flashy and not dodgy at all piece of Damascus that should, if it had been made properly, cost about 10 times my budget… And then rip my face to pieces with the horrific piece of shit that I’d ordered from a back street sweatshop in some hellhole…
Anyway, that is not what is going to happen.
I’ve got about £100 to throw at this and that includes a strop. I’ve been looking at restored razors on eBay but I’ve got no idea what’s a good place to start at, other than I’ve heard a seller called Billyji1 is pretty good? https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/billyji1
So go on then, spend my money for me.
Being the adventurous/foolhardy type I decided to go it and, amazingly, didn’t skin myself or even cut myself up even a little bit. I actually enjoyed the process and ended up with a socially acceptable shave, albeit far from the closest I’ve ever achieved with any of my DEs.
Sooooo, now I want to try a proper straight razor, and as Christmas is around the corner, I’ve asked Mrs 998 for one, and she’s agreed.
In practice this would normally involve me looking at endless razors on eBay, then buying the prettiest thing I can find that is right at the top of my price range, despite that being a really flashy and not dodgy at all piece of Damascus that should, if it had been made properly, cost about 10 times my budget… And then rip my face to pieces with the horrific piece of shit that I’d ordered from a back street sweatshop in some hellhole…
Anyway, that is not what is going to happen.
I’ve got about £100 to throw at this and that includes a strop. I’ve been looking at restored razors on eBay but I’ve got no idea what’s a good place to start at, other than I’ve heard a seller called Billyji1 is pretty good? https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/billyji1
So go on then, spend my money for me.