I figured out why I like DE's so much

[pbmax]

It hit me while I was on westcoastshaving a little while ago.

I stopped for the ump-tenth time since I got my Progressive Murker.
asking why do I like this so much? My only other AD is diet DP. Long term at least...

Then it hit me. DE's are like tools!!! :biggrin1:
Who cannot use another tool? :thumbup:
Then you need stuff to take care of the new tools right?
Along with the accessories and care items for the material it is used for.

1.New blades (many tools today use disposable blades)
2.Surface prep - pre-shave oils
3.Surface protection during tool use - soaps and creams
4.Surface repair - alum/witch hazel? (sp?)
5.Surface protectors - aftershave and balms.



Still new at wet shaving so please fill free to add or correct any thing I left out or got out of order....

I might as well be at the local Northern Tools... :biggrin1:


edit: I forgot to add.
It is also something I really have enjoyed learning. Not just the tool use, but the whole process.
I am a night shaver by choice and find it a relaxing end to my day.

[hypo_style]

Amen.
Beautifully-designed tools, at that.

[ateace]

Absolutely. I try to explain this to my wife. She still wonders why her father, a classical musician, was so enthralled with knives to the point where he would stop any family activity to investigate knives he saw in store windows.

Guys like to collect things that can be used, whether they be guns, cars, fountain pens, mechanichal watches, razors, guitars, etc. They are (hopefully) expertly crafted and engineered and we see them as works of art.
Then we go and use them.

[ofelas]

Exactly.
Not to mention the fact that the pleasurable removal of facial whiskers is one of the last manly rituals that women will not want to participate in, regardless of whether politically correct gender equality demands it or not.

[Crawford Montizano]

Amen.
Beautifully-designed tools, at that.

That were made to last.



Exactly.
Not to mention the fact that the pleasurable removal of facial whiskers is one of the last manly rituals that women will not want to participate in, regardless of whether politically correct gender equality demands it or not.

I think there is a mutual benefit from wet shaving. We may enjoy the ritual and... well you know rest.

[natchez]

Beside the fact that the razors are indeed wonderful little tools, they are used for the little bit of "me" time guys actually get. Women are much more into the me time with their rituals; we on the other hand really have such few. Just a thought...:001_smile

[Maul555]

Absolutely. I try to explain this to my wife. She still wonders why her father, a classical musician, was so enthralled with knives to the point where he would stop any family activity to investigate knives he saw in store windows.

Guys like to collect things that can be used, whether they be guns, cars, fountain pens, mechanichal watches, razors, guitars, etc. They are (hopefully) expertly crafted and engineered and we see them as works of art.
Then we go and use them.

Very well put.

[pbmax]

Absolutely. I try to explain this to my wife. She still wonders why her father, a classical musician, was so enthralled with knives to the point where he would stop any family activity to investigate knives he saw in store windows.

Guys like to collect things that can be used, whether they be guns, cars, fountain pens, mechanichal watches, razors, guitars, etc. They are (hopefully) expertly crafted and engineered and we see them as works of art.
Then we go and use them.

most definitly... :thumbup:

I have already been taking my son to the hardware stores.
Initiate them young... I had told my wife I needed to stop had my toy store. It made her wife laugh.
When we pulled up to the Home depot and my son said this is not the toy store... So I had to explain it to him..
Now he gets it. :001_smile
So now he has 2 places to get toys... ToyrUs and the depot... since he already loves tools and has his own tool box...

heck he has already started a knife collection... :thumbup:

[pbmax]

"Beside the fact that the razors are indeed wonderful little tools, they are used for the little bit of "me" time guys actually get. Women are much more into the me time with their rituals; we on the other hand really have such few. Just a thought... "

lol... me time? whats that? but yeah I can see that for sure. Womder how the wife would react to. Sorry boss I gotta go get in some me time...