Thread: Am I obsessive or thinking in terms of the future?

There's very good reasons for having 2 SR's but like bunnies if you don't pay close attention all of a sudden you'll have 5 or 10.

I stayed at 2 razors for a handful of years, with the assistance of a DE that I picked up along the way. First I screwed them up with my own attempts at honing. Then I had Lynn straighten them out and I re-learned honing working "backward" from learning to properly strop, then learning to properly refresh an edge on the Norton 8k, and only then learning to shape up an already-good bevel on the 4k. It always helped that, if I screwed up one razor, I had a second to shave with while I worked through my problem.

More recently, I found good, sound reasons to double my inventory.

i have nothing sensible to add here... i suffer from MAD so yeah its ALWAYS better to have more i just placed bids on the bay on 4 different razors which, if i win them, i have to explain to SWMBO, but hey that'll work its self out.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

1 is all you *need*.

In a perfect world, yes. I would have to very respectfully disagree though. Where I live, in Noobville, a suburb of Realville(quoting my favorite talk show host), I almost immediately came across the need for a second razor. The razor I had purchased wasn't shave ready, in fact, Lynn responded to me something like "that must have been a rough shaver". I was blessed with shave-ready donor in the meantime. Then I started to succumb to disorders directly associated with out sport. Put a fork in me. Done.

Now, I reserve my pro honed razor as a holy grail for measuring my other razors against.

Now, I had a few problems getting the show off the ground and had I not experienced the charity of a benevolent SRP member(there are many here , my learning experience would have been retarded. Also, there are so many ways of damaging the razor's edge when beginning.

Doing it over again, I would have ordered two sight unseen razors from WD. Of course, I still would have gone 'tique slumming

Just my experience.

Originally Posted by Phrank

Yes, 1 is all you need, but I find 30 helps, plus lots of different soaps, toss in a few strops, ohh ya...get stones you won't use, including a razor hone, don't forget pastes and last but not least, you will absolutely need a scuttle....

And there you have it...Phrank telling the brutal truth...
I was hoping we would be like Jack Nicholson in As good as it gets..."Don't be like me"
But then again, we do enjoy it or we would not be here enabling each other...

Smooth Shaving brothers...

I have a dozen - in case I need to send 11 of them out, somewhere, for something. It's ridiculous. I don't talk about it much.

I really should consider sending a few to an alternate location in case of disaster...

Well now fellas.. i know what i have to do. Take the plunge and explain to the wife why two is better than one in this situation. I knew i wasn't obsessed and just thinking logically.

Originally Posted by 562s13

Well now fellas.. i know what i have to do. Take the plunge and explain to the wife why two is better than one in this situation. I knew i wasn't obsessed and just thinking logically.

Welcome to the club, the shrink isn't in right now but he'll keep in touch with you

Originally Posted by Lumberjohn

Welcome to the club, the shrink isn't in right now but he'll keep in touch with you

I feel like if i speak to a shrink about this issue I am oh so logically thinking about, i would end up asking if i could practice shaving his face because i just shaved a few hours ago.

Nonetheless, being "deployed" puts a lot of time on my hands and I get really antsy and wonder when the heck my package will arrive. I checked the mail twice a day when i ordered my Boker. If order another, they will hate me.