Mine was a hand-me down Tech, given to me by my Dad around about 1977, he showed me the ropes, i shared his brush and soap, i think it was a standard Natural bristle, nothing flash. He did use Palmolive and i think Wilky sticks, we used Wilkinson sword blades.
The Old Man used to have to shave twice a day, he had a beard as stiff as stair-rods, i had bum-fluff and he still beat me every-time.
Oh i wish i still had that Tech, He always used either a Gillette Tech or a similar Wilkinson sword until the day he passed.
I moved on to fancy cart razors, electric, cart - electric and so on, i do not know what happened to my Tech.
Years later, when we were researching my Grand-pops shenanigans in Flanders during the Great War, i picked up a Vintage (WW1) shave ready straight in an old shop, the proprietor showed me the hanging hair test. I ended up chopping myself up for about 3 weeks and one day in 2008 it just clicked, i bought a few other Str8 razors and again the old Str8 razor was either passed on or just forgotten about. I Str8 shaved for about 6 months then work took over, back to electric, i used to keep one in my desk drawer at work in-case i had a meeting.
Pops took really poorly and we all helped Mam to look after him, i could see when my sisters were shaving him with the crappy electric razor they had bought his face used to drop. I started with once a week i would take him into the bathroom and get his old Tech out, His Palmolive stick and an old boar brush and away we went, the 1st few times i was absolutely crapping myself, In his 80s he still had black hair with some grey and thinning but it was all still there, his Beard was just the same. i went from 60/100 to 90-95/100 in a few weeks and he really looked forward to his "special" shave days, A splash of aftershave and it really lifted him.
When we lost him a couple of years ago i missed that little special time we had together so i thought bugger it. Early in 2018 I bought a Merkur 23C long handle, and Omega Pure badger brush and dug out the old soaps i used for my Str8 shaving and away i went down the rabbit hole.
Sadly All of Dads shaving kit got misplaced when the girls were helping Mam clear the house.
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