Shaving for Earth

[selamlar]

Anyway, he had a load of safety razor blades which he stropped up to usable sharpness on a big block of leather, inserted them into a straight razor-type holder, gave me the best shave I have ever had (plus a violent but stimulating neck/shoulder massage) coiffed me so I looked like a filmstar, and charged me about 9p.

Yeah, thats what they all use over here. They look like cut throat razors, but are in fact razor holders. The other trick is the old 'blazing cotton wool in the ears' to burn off those irritating little hairs. Im not sure whether the barber or I was more alarmed at the gouts of flame that issued forth the first time they tried that trick.

I also used to have an irrational fear of cut throats, but the fact that they are using holders somehow cleared that up. I guess you would be pretty hard pressed to do any serious damage with those holder jobs as you only have about 1mm of blade showing above the holder.

 

[subversplat]

Does anybody know if you can get synthetic (ie. non-animal based) strops for straight razors? I feel bad throwing away all those disposables.

 

[spacemonkey]

I run my clippers haphazardly over my face twice a week.

 

[bi0boy]

Does anybody know if you can get synthetic (ie. non-animal based) strops for straight razors? I feel bad throwing away all those disposables.

You can use the aptly named Razor Strop Fungus (Piptoporus Betulinus). It grows on silver birch trees (you need to dry it out and fix it to a board).

 

[subversplat]

You can use the aptly named Razor Strop Fungus (Piptoporus Betulinus). It grows on silver birch trees (you need to dry it out and fix it to a board).

That's amazing. Is there nothing fungai can't do?!