Is it just me or does anyone else hate that therm. I have never cut my throat with one or heard of anyone doing so. What is wrong with "straight razor"?
Cut Throat Razor
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I'm not offended by the term, "cut throat." I think it sounds badd ars.
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Most people I speak to don't know what I mean by straight razor.
They do understand cut throat though.
Maybe it's just my accent.
They do understand cut throat though.
Maybe it's just my accent.
the term "Cut throat" tends to be more European when referring to a straight. And although it DOES sound more bad *** usually find myself saying straight unless i am pulling a Sweeney Todd at my barber shop above a meat pie store! 
We totally agree.
i am not fond of the term......
Seems a rather inaccurate term but possibly humorous to those who don't participate in straight shaving. I don't care for the term either, FWIW, but seems to be a mostly European term.
I agree with this. It seems that down under (whether NZ or Australia) the term used is cut throat. Not sure about the UK, but given that NZ and Australia are British colonies, perhaps we got it from the Brits.
I don't mind either term, but YMMV!
I actually like the therm cut throat razor. YMMV
I'm not really offended by it, but I don't use the term myself.
I try to avoid the term (and action).
i usually answer to it but do not like it much and would not use it.
Here's a blast from the past.
I don't mind the term...it certainly makes me feel like more of a bada$$ when I tell people I shave with a "cut throat" razor...their eyes light up more than if I say I shave with a straight (I think in the US saying "straight" implies shavette whereas people know exactly what cut throat means). I digress the one reason I don't like the term Cut Throat is that is seems to take away from the art of making a straight razor and its very refined beauty. Just my thoughts.
Therms are good if I have enough of them to keep me warm in the winter. Therns, on the other hand, well .... them I can do without. 
The term itself does not have much of an impact on me and as others have said, I think it is a regional thing, mostly used in the UK and Commonwealth countries I think. I have also heard of them being called "Open razors" and again, I think that is regional term (but I cannot remember where I heard it....?).
Brian
Brian
when im looking at the bay if they have cut throught instead of straight razor, I do not bid on it, I keep going thats bad carma i think..
My preferred "cutthroat"
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