I used to be active on one dedicated to, of all things, straight r Then I stopped visiting for a few years; recently, I wanted to log some question about a particular brand of aftershave (hey, it's no
If it's not badgerandblade.com, I'm sure if I logged in again after 1 years I'd find the same drama. I used to read there when I was gettin into wet shaving, then I bought an old Gillette safety razor at an antique store, a lifetime supply of blades on eBay, a mug and cheap brush, and haven't felt the need to talk about any of it since. :)
Yeah! The one I was thinking of wasn't B&B; it was
Straight Razor Place. It was occasionally useful for
getting some advice when I was getting into it, but
I didn't feel the need to post every single time I
shaved. And when I was in the Marines, that was daily
(facial irritation from daily shaving was _why_ I
started down the path of using a straight razor in the
first place, btw).
I need to shave more often than I do, but since I can't stand for more than about a minute at a time, it's annoying as all get out. (I have a shower stool I can sit on, with the added side effect of pulling me further away from the sink and leaving me below the bottom of the
mirror.) I usually just use an electric shaver to reduce the Pando
growing on my chin and neck to stubble, because I can't work up the courage to Properly Shave with even a safety razor, out of fear I'll cut myself, lol.