Hi all from a new member.
Been spending a lot of time over the last week browsing these pages and those of other sites after reading a thread on an unrelated forum discussing straight razors.
Spent the last 20 something years going from cheap disposables to expensive cartridges and now a Philips wet electric. None have really given me what i want and i have become a very lazy shaver. for the last 10 years or so i have been in the shave a couple of time a week brigade.
A couple of years ago a friend bought a straight which he brought into work to show me ans ask my opinion on polishing out some water marks on it. When i opened it i nearly had a fit. i had never seen one up close let alone hand a straight. i can tell you it terrified me, the thought of putting that against my face made me wince. Two years later and here i am seriously considering buying and trying my first straight razor. I like the idea of buying a restored vintage model From someone like Neil at the strop shop. Just don't know as yet what to get.
Any way that's where I'm at, spending hours looking at, reading about and contemplating straight razor shaving.
I have considered trying to find a good traditional barber where i can have a hot towel straight razor shave to see how it feels and try and learn as much as i can before embarking on the trip myself. Can anybody recommend somewhere in the Southend on Sea area of Essex< and do they all use shavettes now or are there still some traditionalist who use a proper straight. I have heard that the traditional straight razor gives a better result than the shavette or do they have to use them for hygiene reasons.
Many thanks in advance for any replies you may give to this thread and others i will post in the future.
Been spending a lot of time over the last week browsing these pages and those of other sites after reading a thread on an unrelated forum discussing straight razors.
Spent the last 20 something years going from cheap disposables to expensive cartridges and now a Philips wet electric. None have really given me what i want and i have become a very lazy shaver. for the last 10 years or so i have been in the shave a couple of time a week brigade.
A couple of years ago a friend bought a straight which he brought into work to show me ans ask my opinion on polishing out some water marks on it. When i opened it i nearly had a fit. i had never seen one up close let alone hand a straight. i can tell you it terrified me, the thought of putting that against my face made me wince. Two years later and here i am seriously considering buying and trying my first straight razor. I like the idea of buying a restored vintage model From someone like Neil at the strop shop. Just don't know as yet what to get.
Any way that's where I'm at, spending hours looking at, reading about and contemplating straight razor shaving.
I have considered trying to find a good traditional barber where i can have a hot towel straight razor shave to see how it feels and try and learn as much as i can before embarking on the trip myself. Can anybody recommend somewhere in the Southend on Sea area of Essex< and do they all use shavettes now or are there still some traditionalist who use a proper straight. I have heard that the traditional straight razor gives a better result than the shavette or do they have to use them for hygiene reasons.
Many thanks in advance for any replies you may give to this thread and others i will post in the future.