Scrape razor

[Pat-inCO]

I periodically get tired of the "job" done by my Braun electric razor and
use a "scrape razor" for a day or two (then go back). Since this happens
almost once per year, I have been using an old, multi blade one that I
bought way more than twenty years ago (now THAT'S value. A scrape
razor blade that lasted twenty years! :roll: ).

Well a year or so back I bought one of the old (now called) butterfly type
razors. The only problem with it is the handle is too smooth when your
hands are wet. Oh well, looks like time to get one that is easier to use.

Got one from Amazon that is properly knurled. NO problem holding it,
EXCEPT it is not the "butterfly" type and you have to disassemble it
to add/change the blade - - - goes back Monday.

SOooo, I looked again and found a butterfly type, with good knurling,
for one third less than the first one. Works for me. But come time to
pay (electronically) I find that I have enough credit on the card (3% cash
back gets credited) to pay for all but eighty eight cents. :shock:

I still remember paying $2.50 back in 1962 as I started at UofCO! NOW
I get a new one for about one third that. :shock:
AMAZING how some things work out.

(thought it was time for something not very serious 8) )

 

[wwb]

Still using a 50+ year old Gillette double edge razor. Remember the Friday night fights sponsored by Gillette? The tune said something about "....light, regular, or heavy, they make shaves for every beard.....". Mine's a "regular"..

I had a brief encounter with a Norelco electric about 40 years ago..... thanks, but no thanks.

 

[WAYNO]

What is this "razor" thing you speak of?

Some of us cannot use an electric shaver, and I am envious of those that can.

I own and have owned many electric shavers thru many years. And I still try to make them work. Drag them across my face til it's red and sore, and then still feel like I need a shave when I'm done.

So, my only choice is a razor. And contrary to others, I've found the new-fangled razors with 3-or-more blades work the best for me.

WAYNO.

 

[exavid]

Lucky for me I can use an electric razor. It doesn't get quite as close but I have a blond beard so it really doesn't matter. I was surprised to find that Norelco makes an electric razor that leaves about 1/8" stubble. Here I thought those guys with a couple days stubble were bums. Little did I know they'd probably shaved that very morning. I still think they look like bums. If you're one of those fellows and feel offended by this post... suck it up.

 

[Acorn]

I too use a 50+ year old Gilette that my dad found new in the box in a house he was rehabbing. After vacation i was in a hurry getting ready work and couldn't find my razor. I grabbed a newspaper disposable in the drawer and was surprised how good a shave it gave. Much better than the Gillette.

 

[wwb]

.....I was surprised to find that Norelco makes an electric razor that leaves about 1/8" stubble........

Back when I tried a Norelco, they had the TV commercial with Santa Claus riding a "floating head" Norelco over the curving snowdrifts, extolling the wonders of a close, comfortable shave. Yeah, right.... check out the second ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888mx7hMZ0

 

[Bob Wright]

Went through several electric shavers years ago, gave them up. I use a Gillette Atra Plus and Williams mug soap. Close, lasting shave, and sort of luxurious feeling when I shave.

Bob Wright

 

[Don Lovel]

Who steals so many razors that Wal Mart and other stores have to lock them up?
Darndest thing I ever saw in retail security efforts was locking up razors. "Personal grooming and manscaping that big of a hobby?
That many bald headed guys too cheap to buy a decent way to shave their heads?
And the retail price of the various shaving rigs is stupid high.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Still using a 50+ year old Gillette double edge razor. Remember the Friday night fights sponsored by Gillette? The tune said something about "....light, regular, or heavy, they make shaves for every beard.....". Mine's a "regular"..

I had a brief encounter with a Norelco electric about 40 years ago..... thanks, but no thanks.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea. The fights were also on Wednesday Night in 1952-53
Do you use the brown or the blue blade???

 

[warren5421]

Seens like 1975 I remember using something that I turned a thing with numbers on it from 1-9 to take the hair off my face, it drew blood so I stopped taking the hair off. Also had my DD214 in hand

 

[Goldstar225]

Went through several electric shavers years ago, gave them up. I use a Gillette Atra Plus and Williams mug soap. Close, lasting shave, and sort of luxurious feeling when I shave.

Bob Wright

I've been using a mug and brush for about 35 years now. A hot lather shave starts the day off right!

 

[Tom W]

Believe it or not my doctor told me to use an electric razor because of the meds I'm on, and a cut could be a serious problem. It's OK with me, as I generally slice myself up pretty well with a regular razor.

 

[WAYNO]

Since we're having fun here, anybody remember the cartridge razors, with a continuous band of razor blade. Spin the lever and ya get a new section of blade.


And injector razors. I thought they worked very well. You can still buy the injector refills, but I don't think they still sell the shavers. Do they? This is what I was issued (or required to buy) in the Army.


WAYNO.

 

[Tallbald]

I shave both my face and my head about every 2 days, unless we head to church of something where I prefer to appear neat and clean. When I started head shaving I had to try several different styles until I found one that works for me. I now use a disposable with five blades and has an open back to allow the whiskers and creme to flow through it as it cuts. I did waste $40 a few years ago on a new manufactured old style safety razor, along with a selection of blades from different makers and countries. All of them nicked and skinned me so badly that I gave up on the style razor completely and returned to the 5 blade disposable.Don

 

[Rick Courtright]

And the retail price of the various shaving rigs is stupid high.

Hi,

I wonder how many bazillions of dollars worth of various "consumables" have gone into the landfills ever since Mr. Gillette invented the "disposable" razor blade? I've seen him credited with starting an entirely new (then) and costly (today) marketing trend, the use and throw away product!

Rick C

 

[Pat-inCO]

... the use and throw away product!

Isn't that what food is?
You consume it and then flush what's left over down the drain. :roll:

 

[WAYNO]

Hi,

I wonder how many bazillions of dollars worth of various "consumables" have gone into the landfills....

Rick C

Beats the heck out of my "consumable" blood and skin going down the drain. I've inherited some straight razors and a strop, but never in my life have I ever had the nerve to actually put that razor to my skin. :shock:

WAYNO.

 

[Sin6Sec63451022]

My wife got me a "Harry's" setup. About skinned myself alive! And got a crummy shave. I'll stick with costco's finest. Can only use an electric to trim up all the spots that never used to grow hair!

 

[Poco Oso]

And the retail price of the various shaving rigs is stupid high.

Hi,

I wonder how many bazillions of dollars worth of various "consumables" have gone into the landfills ever since Mr. Gillette invented the "disposable" razor blade? I've seen him credited with starting an entirely new (then) and costly (today) marketing trend, the use and throw away product!

Rick C

I have done work on 1900-1960's houses, that the entire bathroom wall, behind the medicine cabinet (with the little slot in the back), was full of razor blades. I still have my Gillette butterfly, from boot camp in '67, but my regular razor is a Merkur open comb, that you take apart to change blades on. The best razor I have ever used.

 

[Rick Courtright]

I have done work on 1900-1960's houses, that the entire bathroom wall, behind the medicine cabinet (with the little slot in the back), was full of razor blades.

Hi,

Steve, we've got a lot of old Victorian houses in Redlands, most built by wealthy orange growers in the late 19th century. Some have been kept up nicely, but many of them have undergone their first remodels ever, or full restorations, only in the last 20 years or so.

My brother lived in one about 35 years ago, and while I'd heard about them, I think that was the first time I'd seen one of those slots in person. The house was divided into three "apartments", and his landlord, who lived in one of them, joked that he could probably do all right if he just recycled all the scrap steel in the walls, between the razor blades and the window sash weights that had broken off their cords over 100 years or so! Makes one wonder what was found in some of those restorations.

Rick C

 

[SamV]

I grew up on the safety razor too. Gillette with the adjustable setting that Warren5421 also used in his post. Used the Gillette Tech magic too. I am sure that I have used most of the Gillette products over the years. I admit that I really think that they make a good product. I shave every day with an average whisker growth. They are expensive blades but they seem to last awhile for me. I can't remember the last nick I had while shaving. Back in my high school days, I seemed to get cut daily . Maybe more than one cut. Which brings up that medieval torture device used to fix the cuts. STYPTIC PENCILS!!! Who needs morning coffee to wake up when you can just dab a few cuts with a styptic pencil?

 

[Acorn]

I remember when I first started shaving I'd have so many cuts that my dad said I had better call the hospital to make sure they enough of my blood type on hand for a transfusion

 

[sfhogman]

My Dad used to go to work with teeny bits of toilet paper stuck to the nicks. He'd remove them just before walking into the office...looked like his face was covered with little Japanese battle flags.
In the past 10 years or so I've gone back to using a safety razor. Knowing how to prep and use the razor gets me great results every time. Pretty easy, really.

Jeff

 

[Tom W]

That's why the mantra is "S,S,&S." your beard will be soft then.

 

[Rancher Will]

I still use the two double edge, adjustable razors that were issued to me in the USAF. One was issued to me while I was in Madigan Army Hospital, 1953, and the other when I was transferred to Fairchild AFB. The GI razors are adjustable with 9 settings to give the best shave with regular double edge blades. A year's supply of blades are available in any Supermarket for less than Five Dollars.

Before I enlisted in the military in 1949 I used a straight razor with a shaving mug and brush. I was issued a GI razor at Lackland AFB in 1949 and every time I was transferred to a new base, I got another. For many years the best blades were Gillette Blue Blades. Now Stainless Blades have replaced the Blue Blades.

Over the years I have tried two electric razors, and two or three other "newer"type that came on the market. I have always gone back to my GI razors since they give the smoothest and best shave.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I was issued a GI razor at Lackland AFB in 1949 and every
time I was transferred to a new base, I got another.

Well Will, I think you have the record for the least expensive. I think I
just found the one at the other end of the price scale; $147! :shock:

It's listed on Amazon.
(found it from a web page about the ten best safety razors)
A-MAY-ZING!

 

[Taterman]

I'm lucky, I've never used anything but an electric. I bought a new Baun rechargeable about 15 years ago ($90) and it still works great. I had to order a new battery for it about 5 years ago, but it was surprisingly cheap. Still runs like new.

 

[Mike J]

When Dad first taught me how to shave it was with an old Gillette "butterfly" type razor. Since then I have used the cartridge type & disposables. Several years ago I decided to go the cheap route & went back to the Gillette. It does get a little dicey at times because I often go 3-5 days without shaving depending on what is going on.

I used the Williams shaving soap for years because it was what I grew up with. A while back I couldn't find it in the store so I bought Van Der Hagen shaving soap & I think I like it better.

 

[sfhogman]

Van Der Hagens is good stuff. Go online and get a tub of Proraso or Cella and give 'em a try. Great shaves.

 

[Colonel Daddy]

Wish I knew what happened to my Dad's old gold to brass plated Gillette. It's the razor I learned to shave with. He always bought Gillette Thin blades and got 2 or 3 shaves per blade!