Good Afternoon:
I would like to ask the advice and indulgence of the members here, since you have probably seen and answered this before. And, moderators, please feel free to put this inquiry anywhere you find suitable.
I must apologise in advance if this has been posted before (especially on a first post like this one). My attempts are searching this by keyword yielded 400 results and I did not look at all of them. This post will take a bit of back story, so please bear with me.
I shaved daily with a straight for close to twenty years, until a friend of mine dropped it a few years back, putting a huge, deep (unrepairable) warp on the cutting edge. I was unable to find another one and so, switched back to cartridge razors. As a result, I now sport a closely trimmed beard, since I can only handle shave trimming it once every two or three days.
The reason I could not find its mate is because the blade (made by Henkle, I believe) was much shorter than the "standard" blade length available on the straights I was able to find. This was very easy to manoeuvre around on the chin, etc and I find the "standard" blades much more difficult in this regard.
I finally got tired of the beard a few weeks back and began looking for a replacement straight, trying to find one like I had previously used. There is one store here that used to deal with shaving supplies and, when I talked to him, he started to laugh. "You were using the wrong razor", he chortled.
Apparently, I had been shaving for all those years with a "corn razor". Hey, it worked for me.
So, the question at last, for those of you who did not skip directly to the bottom: Are there shorter razors available? For instance, are the "slip in" style razors that hold half a double blade easier to move around? And, since the same gentleman warned me that the current crop of those are no good (made in China, apparently), what are my options? I surely am not going full face shaves with a cartridge, now or ever.
Thank you very much in advance:
John (MUCH more salt) P
I would like to ask the advice and indulgence of the members here, since you have probably seen and answered this before. And, moderators, please feel free to put this inquiry anywhere you find suitable.
I must apologise in advance if this has been posted before (especially on a first post like this one). My attempts are searching this by keyword yielded 400 results and I did not look at all of them. This post will take a bit of back story, so please bear with me.
I shaved daily with a straight for close to twenty years, until a friend of mine dropped it a few years back, putting a huge, deep (unrepairable) warp on the cutting edge. I was unable to find another one and so, switched back to cartridge razors. As a result, I now sport a closely trimmed beard, since I can only handle shave trimming it once every two or three days.
The reason I could not find its mate is because the blade (made by Henkle, I believe) was much shorter than the "standard" blade length available on the straights I was able to find. This was very easy to manoeuvre around on the chin, etc and I find the "standard" blades much more difficult in this regard.
I finally got tired of the beard a few weeks back and began looking for a replacement straight, trying to find one like I had previously used. There is one store here that used to deal with shaving supplies and, when I talked to him, he started to laugh. "You were using the wrong razor", he chortled.
Apparently, I had been shaving for all those years with a "corn razor". Hey, it worked for me.
So, the question at last, for those of you who did not skip directly to the bottom: Are there shorter razors available? For instance, are the "slip in" style razors that hold half a double blade easier to move around? And, since the same gentleman warned me that the current crop of those are no good (made in China, apparently), what are my options? I surely am not going full face shaves with a cartridge, now or ever.
Thank you very much in advance:
John (MUCH more salt) P