What did your Dad shave with?

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My Father has grown a beard since the mid 80's. Prior to that he used a Schick Type L injector. I don't know how popular they were in the UK. I have no idea why he didn't use a cart razor. I once asked him why he did and his response was that it must have been the cheapest, and he wasn't going to cut himself with a DE. What did your Dad use?
 
My dad uses his dads old de. My grandad carried it with him through the war and it's still going strong. I was only speaking to my mum about it the other day and she doesn't know what brand it is. She thinks it could be what was issued to him when he joined up but we cant be certain.

I actually had my first ever shave with it when I was old enough to shave.
 
My Dad's in his early 80's and he used a Tech then a Wilkinson's Flip Top before switching to a Gillette Contour.

As for my shaving hobby, he seems a bit perplexed by the size of my collection but pleased I'm shaving as before I started this hobby I had a beard for the best part of 15 years and he wasn't really enthusiastic about that!
 
For most of his life a Gillette Flaretip, a Kent badger brush and Floris shaving soap. In his later years he changed to whatver carts were the latest and greatest, but stuck with the Kent brush (I bought him a few as presents over the years) and Floris soap, even after they changed the formula. Not that he bought the soap, it was always by mother's task.
 
My Dad has used a Braun electric for as long as I can remember, which dates back to the early '70s.

When I was in my teens, he gave me an electric razor, and no further instruction. That razor was was pretty nasty, and left my face feeling raw every time I used it.

When I left home a couple of years later, I switched to wet shaving just like all my friends did.
 
My Dad has used a Braun electric for as long as I can remember, which dates back to the early '70s.

When I was in my teens, he gave me an electric razor, and no further instruction. That razor was was pretty nasty, and left my face feeling raw every time I used it.

I have a mental picture of a 40 something man in the 1970's (sideburns, flares etc) standing over a 13 year old boy with an electric razor in his hand and saying 'This is the razor I use. I hate this razor. It tears my face up. It is now yours.'

I've never shaved with an electric razor, I worry I might be missing out on something. The closest I have got was when I used my clippers to trim my beard down before wet shaving and it would always be a horrible experience.
 
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