Mikael said:
Okay, you're on the list Martini, the 17th of September 2012 it is then. It's never to late + don't you want the best possible shave (you have to agree that you want to find out... if it's true, which it is, you're missing out on something
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What's doin Mikey,
Straights take lots of work to master, and then you gotta maintain em as well. I flat out don't have the motivation...plain and simple. Using a DE gives me a great shave, and the extra close feeling a straight can maybe provide just doesn't seem worth the effort. Plus, I'm not nuts.
Can't say I'll never give it a shot. I recently finally tried a SE, after only five years of blowing it off. Musta been peer pressure that made me try it, and the experience was as unpleasant as I thought it was gonna be.
So you never know. It's not that I don't already have a Norton and some other stones. I need a strop, but I think that's about all. Heh, I have a number of razors, so that's no problem. Just need em sharpened and some cleaned up a little bit.
Much as I appreciate your continued willingness to 'help', at this time I must decline your generous offer to push me down yet another rabbit hole.
Your Yankee buddy Marty
Oh yeah, here's a razor I noticed laying on the top of the straight pile. Looks to be never used or sharpened, Never hearda this brand, but then I don't know crap about straights. I was gonna use it for scraping the paint off some windows, or maybe do a little whittling (carving wood items). Yeah, that's on tap for this weekend.
Some kinda foreign name on the thing...... C V Heljestrand. Sounds Croation or maybe Pakistani. Maybe you hearda this guy.