why a straight razor?

Dave Rishar said:
How much better would you say a Fusion is, compared to a Mach 3?
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I'd say the Fusion is a fair amount better than the Mach 3. It's more comfortable, and it shaves closer, or seems to. I also get less irritation when I use my straight razors, and I have more razor bumps, etc, when I use the cartridge razors. I prefer a straight razor shave when I have time.
 
I've always disliked the "lift and cut" marketing. If the razor lifted your beard that much, you'd be screaming in pain. Not to mention pulling every one of your hairs out by the roots. The distance between the blades is just ridiculous for that marketing. Basically, all you are getting is 3 shaves in one swipe.

The Mach 3 gives a great shave, but the straight razor can match it, it just takes more effort. Whether or not you enjoy the effort is a personal decision.
 
warden41272 said:
If you're doing it right, a straight razor shave will blow away anything else you've shaved with.
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It seems that there's two shaving courts to do battle the mach3's and 5's, and the str8,and DE's. My court side is with the Str8' & DE . I've been shaving for 35 yrs and started with a str8 , switched to a DE, then took the MACH # side for a couple of years. I feel I have a little knowledge in this field.
I know for a fact (for my face that is), that nothing can compare to a str8 razor shave. and one other benefit is that my skin is in pristine condition after many years of str8 Razor shaving( something to do with pulling the skin as you shave and scraping dead skin cells off). As for a quick shave i perfer the DE, but to compare the time it takes to shave as to the pleasure a good shave gives, well whats a couple of minutes more?. I just wanted to give my view of shaving, thanks.
 
I suspect razor cartridge manufacturers of using blades that are either metallurgically inferior or sharpened inadequately on purpose, knowing that if the blades dull twice as fast, they sell twice as many cartridges. Have you all heard of "disposable culture?" How about "engineered life span?" This applies to a huge range of products across the board. These blades are largely made overseas in plants with low QC standards. This is advantageous to those corporations looking to squeeze out more profits. As for the lifting/cutting action, my personal theory based on my experience is that when the blades dull just a little, the first blade or two snags on the hairs a little as it cuts them, lifting the skin surface in the immediate area slightly, causing the immediately following last blade or two to abrade the newly dried skin. You know how between passes with a straight you want to re lather at least a little bit? It seems like multi blade razors take three or four passes without any extra soap in between. More blades = a better shave=moneymaking hype!
 
I hate it. Hate it. Army time, private college that required it before that. The day I got out, I quit shaving, and haven't done it regularly since. I electric shave my neck and upper cheeks a couple of times a week.

In highschool, my father taught me how to shave with a straight razor. I have now three of them, a Red Imp, and a couple of really old others with celluloid handles that are just beautiful.

When I was in my early twenties, I started having to shave every day. The straight razor became too big of a time consumer, so I went through the Sensor, then the Mach 3 phase. Then I discovered that a cheap disposable shaved just as well as them, but saved me a lot of money. I would still break out the "real" razors every once in a while.

Deployed to the desert, and didn't want to scrape my face every day, exposing it to all the crap in the air there, so I went with a AA battery-powered electric. I was allowed to grow a beard for a good portion of the time overseas, so I did for the first time in my life. I loved it!! No worries about shaving every day or what method to use -- I just washed and combed my beard.

My wife bought me a nice Norelco about a year before I got out. As I got older, my beard got thicker and thicker, and the hairs got coarser, too. Every blade method I tried made my face bleed, and gave me ingrown hairs. The Norelco does the ingrown hairs a lot less, especially if I only use it a couple of times a week, and I don't bleed.

I do miss a nice warm shave with the straight razor. About once a year, anyway.

Maybe I'll shave my neck and cheeks with one before church in the morning, or tonight before I go to bed.

I just hate shaving now.
 
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