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threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
I have been mooching at safety razors for reasons I'd guess are familiar to others, they don't gunk up like cartridges and so handle multi day stubble far better. What would be a good starting point?

Best one I bought is an old second hand Gillette, you get lots of recommendations for Merkur (sp) but I couldn't get on with it.
You can also get assorted packs of blades to see which suits before you bulk buy a million.
If you're sensitive like me :rolleyes: get an alum block, mines been going for about 8 or 9 years now!
 

Spoked Wheels

Legendary Member
Location
Bournemouth
I have been mooching at safety razors for reasons I'd guess are familiar to others, they don't gunk up like cartridges and so handle multi day stubble far better. What would be a good starting point?

Well, if you want to have a go without investing too much then I suggest you buy a Gillette Classic for about a fiver. It's a plastic razor but it does a decent job and you'll find out if it's something you might get used to.

Blades cost from about 4p to about 15p IIRC I suggest buying a lot of different blades and see what you like best. A blade is good for 3 shaves or so.

Soap can be bought for as little as 50p from supermarkets.... try Palmolive stick at 50p from supermarkets. A brush like Wilkinson for about £3.50 and you are ready to go.

There are plenty of YouTube videos but you can always drop me a PM :smile:
 

MacB

Lover of things that come in 3's
I've used brush and soap(plain old Imperial Leather) for years so I'll give a safety razor a shot. Have done a little reading on it now and is it worth getting an adjustable one?
 

MrPie

Telling it like it is since 1971
Location
Perth, Australia
As I can't fully understand this post I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume the £40? price tag included back, sack and crack services. Either that or you were mistaken for illiterate foreigners and grossly overcharged.
Ilitrit foriner is a fair assessment. One mans 'grossly overcharged' is another man's tip for the butler :whistle:
 

MacB

Lover of things that come in 3's
Adjustable? I'm new to that. Is that like adjusting the depth of cut on a plane?

Not sure, I think some have adjustable guards but I was more thinking angle of attack, I think this is adjusted by swapping out base plates. Listen to me....like I know what any of that means.. I'm guessing it's about cutting angles and guard/blade choices.

I'll report back assuming I don't lose my head
 
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User482

Guest
Time for the Amazon Veet review:

After having been told my danglies looked like an elderly rastafarian I decided to take the plunge and buy some of this as previous shaving attempts had only been mildly successful and I nearly put my back out trying to reach the more difficult bits.

Being a bit of a romantic I thought I would do the deed on the missus's birthday as a bit of a treat.I ordered it well in advance and working in the North sea I considered myself a bit above some of the characters writing the previous reviews and wrote them off as soft office types...oh my fellow sufferers how wrong I was.

I waited until the other half was tucked up in bed and after giving some vague hints about a special surprise I went down to the bathroom. Initially all went well and I applied the gel and stood waiting for something to happen. I didn't have long to wait.

At first there was a gentle warmth which in a matter of seconds was replaced by an intense burning and a feeling I can only describe as like being given a barbed wire wedgie by two people intent on hitting the ceiling with my head.

Religion hadn't featured much in my life until that night but I suddenly became willing to convert to any religion to stop the violent burning around the turd tunnel and what seemed like the destruction of the meat and two veg.

Struggling to not bite through my bottom lip I tried to wash the gel of in the sink and only succeeded in blocking the plughole with a mat of hair.Through the haze of tears I struggled out of the bathroom across the hall into the kitchen by this time walking was not really possible and I crawled the final yard to the fridge in the hope of some form of cold relief.

I yanked the freezer drawer out and found a tub of ice cream, tore the lid of and positioned it under me. The relief was fantastic but only temporary as it melted fairly quickly and the fiery stabbing soon returned.

Due to the shape of the ice cream tub I hadn't managed to give the starfish any treatment and I groped around in the draw for something else as I was sure my vision was going to fail fairly soon. I grabbed a bag of what I later found out was frozen sprouts and tore it open trying to be quiet as I did so. I took a handful of them and tried in vain to clench some between the cheeks of my arse.

This was not doing the trick as some of the gel had found it's way up the chutney channel and it felt like the space shuttle was running it's engines behind me.This was probably and hopefully the only time in my life I was going to wish there was a gay snowman in the kitchen which should give you some idea of the depths I was willing to sink to in order to ease the pain.

The only solution my pain crazed mind could come up with was to gently ease one of the sprouts where no veg had gone before.

Unfortunately, alerted by the strange grunts coming from the kitchen the other half chose that moment to come and investigate and was greeted by the sight of me, arse in the air, strawberry ice cream dripping from my bell end pushing a sprout up my arse while muttering..." Ooooh that feels good "

Understandingly this was a shock to her and she let out a scream and as I hadn't heard her come in it caused an involuntary spasm of shock in myself which resulted in the sprout being ejected at quite some speed in her direction.

I can understand that having a sprout farted against your leg at 11 at night in the kitchen probably wasn't the special surprise she was expecting and having to explain to the kids the next day what the strange hollow in the ice cream was didn't improve my status...

So to sum it up Veet removes hair, dignity and self respect....... :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3GDDEL1SC1QQ5
 

Spoked Wheels

Legendary Member
Location
Bournemouth
I've used brush and soap(plain old Imperial Leather) for years so I'll give a safety razor a shot. Have done a little reading on it now and is it worth getting an adjustable one?


Well, I can't say that I have tried Imperial Leather soap but I have tried other regular sosps and they just can't compare to shaving soap. You get much more lather, cushioning (more like a cream than hand soap), better slickness, skin protection from the blade, post shave, etc. For the sake of 50p it's worth trying a real shaving soap. If you don't like the scent then try a different scent.... there are lots and lots of scents to choose from..... I must have over 35 soaps in my den.... it's a hobby for me :smile:

Adjustables? If you don't mind spending £40+ for your first razor then yes, they are pretty good. You can play around with the settings till you find what works for you....
The adjustable varies how aggresive the razor is, by vearing the blade gap between top cap and base plate.
I use my adjustable on highest setting for the first pass then lower setting for subsequent passes. Other people look for one setting that feels comfortable and that's it for all passes.
Adjustable safety razors is not a new concept by any means, it's been around for years. Merkur Progress or the Parks varience* are OK for beginners, the Merkur Futur is probably too aggressive.... I still find it intimidating lol

There's a new style of adjustable where you change the base plate.... I have no tried it yet but the idea of changing the base plate mid shave puts me off.
 
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slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
I can't work out what evolutionary advantage we gained by having this bloody stuff sprouting out of our faces on a daily basis. It's bonkers, and extremely irritating.
 

Spoked Wheels

Legendary Member
Location
Bournemouth
It seems that the thought of a shaving hobby might be very strange for many people, it used to be for me too :smile:

I got into safety razor shaving when I got tyred of expensive cartridges, ingrown hairs and neck irritation. As a teenager I had my first shave with my Dad's safety razor but that was so long ago that I couldn't remember how good it was, however, I wasn't scared to try again.

So improving my shaves (hopefully no more neck irritation or ingrown hairs) was one reason, saving money was another reason, my wife wasn't happy with me avoiding shaving for days was also an important reason.

I can now shave 7 days a week, zero irritation, no ingrown hairs, my skin is better than ever and most importantly, my wife loves it.

Shaving with a nice soap, reminiscent of a place in my early years, a person or simply a scent that I simply like, turned shaving into a hobby.

After a while I moved onto cutthroat razors, just another challenge, like building bicycle wheels :smile: spending the time to get the technique right was enjoyable but now that I can do it properly I enjoy it even more.

Weird, isn't it? :laugh:
 
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