Hello from Nevada

wchnu · Sep 16, 2018

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Hi everyone. I'm 52 and started DE wet shaving a couple of years ago after many years of electric shaving. Boy, what a difference. When I decided to give it a try, it was on a whim while at Walmart looking for blades for my electric when I found the Van Der Hagen shave setup they had there. I'm sure everyone has seen it, the DE Weishi razor, brush, soap, and mug. Anyway, used this for awhile, not totally satisfied, and bought an Edwin Jagger DE89LBL. I've never become very good at using shave soap, maybe I don't have the patience or it's the mega hard water we have here, so I mainly use Taylor of Old Bond St. shave cream. Me, being lazy, and becoming annoyed with having to take the razor apart to change the blade, I purchased a Parker butter fly razor, don't remember which model but one of the more popular ones. I didn't really care for it too much. So, my googling began, along with youtubing, and people were talking about old Gillette's. So, I purchased a Gillette 40's style Super Speed from ebay, and for me I was in shave Nirvana. Then began, much to my wife's dismay, my Gillette acquisition bug last year. I have slowed down some but I have acquired more 40's style super speeds, flare tips, slim adjustable's, fat boys, post war Aristocrats (currently using and love it), scored an aristocrat slim adjustable, and a couple of toggles. My latest acquisition that I just received is a GEM OCMM. It looks almost brand new and I got it for 12.50. I couldn't believe how well it looked when I opened the box and saw it in person. I'm sure there are other's I haven't mentioned as I have, at least for me, amassed quite the collection. That's me in a somewhat brief nutshell.

Kevin
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Welcome from Baton Rouge. Sorry so late to the party. So throw that two sided junk into a box. Lets get to the OCMM shaves!!!

CrustyCat · Sep 16, 2018

Thanks everyone. I'll try and get some pics together sometime.

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brit · Sep 16, 2018

hello and welcome from canada, i have a GAD thing going as well..funny how the wives roll their eyes at it, cheaper than my hot rod collection i say..am an aristocrat fan as well ,enjoy...

Draftetdan · Sep 17, 2018

Welcome aboard, Kevin. I'm new here, too. Your story sounds super common. It seems that the folks here are one of two types: either they have always been DE users and will NEVER change OR, they had a "holy cow, this is awesome" moment and... will NEVER go back. Either way, we are here to feed our addictions. Welcome.

My name is Dan and I have RAD.

MR41 · Sep 17, 2018

Linuxguile · Sep 19, 2018

Hello Kevin and welcome!

CrustyCat · Sep 25, 2018

Thanks for the great welcome everyone.

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Enrico · Oct 5, 2018

Please forgive my poor hospitality @CrustyCat ; welcome to TSD from western NY. You should try a Schick Krona ... their a great razor and available for a song!

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