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Its a shavette, not a straight.

A different straight razor every day. Otherwise I'd own just one!

I don't have to design my own, Olive and Sinclair here in Nashville did it for me! The Coffee Bean is fantastic. oliveandsinclair.com. None better. Check the blog on their website.

I see the coverage all the time, and rates have been rising.

Many common breed related issues are excluded.

Accidents are actually the major coverage.

At any rate, READ THE POLICY! If you don't like it, cancel it flat. After you take the animal to the Vet, it's too late.

The usual for advertising. As an angler I've often seen the most unbelievable rod and reel combinations, and the classic, spinning reel held upside down, countless times.

Looks like a DE stand they shoehorned a straight into.

The refills I've received from two different vendors have been palm, not tallow. It may be the tallow is depleated.

I guess my taste in after-shave is rather plain. After using a bunch over the years, and following the demise of the Barbershop brand after-shave many years ago, I've settled into a comfortable relationship with Musgo Real and Proraso splash. My wife really likes the Musgo.

I don't know yet.

It appears the good Doctor didn't hoover up all the remaining stock in North America, although he made a valiant effort.

As I've ordered mine, they can be found at eBarbership.

My personal preferrence for an everyday pocket knife is a small single blade. The type of knife that does not require belt carry and does not bulge in one's pocket. I have a Schrade that was my fathers, but I don't carry it because it is a three bladed knife. I have an Opinel in my backpacking gear ...

Bump, for sale again.

I also had a difficult time accepting that there were differences in blades when I returned to a DE. But then I started shaving in the golden age of DE blades back in the 60s and early 70s when almost any blade at the drug store was a good blade. Times changed.

Nice to see you back posting Michael.


Two new choices, Feather and Pils. Who needs Merkur or MP?

In all seriousness, the newer EJ/Muhle razor is all the DE I need.

What a hord!! A mother lode of Swedes. While I mostly use a straight these days, if I didn't have 200 Swedes, plus 30 UK Wilks Light Brigades and 50 Personna 74s I'd have to take some off your hands. I don't look forward to it, but perhaps some day I may no longer be able to use a straight and will ...

:idea: Take the $12.99 and buy the mocker a book on manners and etiquette. :idea: :idea: Better, donate $12.99 to a veteran's charity. Bill can be a bit brusque. Even to the point of not selling to people with whom he has political disagreements. Fortunately, I'm not one of them. He does good work,...

Tuesday morning. Prep: Wash face with glycerin soap, massage lather into beard followed by hot towel. Brush: Simpson PJ2 Best. Cream: Tom’s of Maine. Razor: Merkur Slant/Gillette Swede. Post: Thayer’s Witch Hazel, Clubman. Been off my schedule recently and shaving in the morning. As I’m slow to wake...

And wear gloves!! Even dull mower blades can have sharp areas. I sharpen my blades with a grinder, but the mower is a zero turn three blade 52" deck. It would take me a week to sharpen them with just a file. Sometimes there are so many nicks I'd swear I mow gravel rather than grass. Scrap the d...

Tuesday evening. Prep: Wash face with glycerin soap, massage lather into beard followed by hot towel. Brush: Simpson Colonel Super. Soap: D. R. Harris Arlington. Razor: 5/8ths TIPTLE. Post: Thayer’s Witch Hazel, Dominica Bay Rum. Always a superior shave with this blade. http://i976.photobucket.com/a...

Somehow I missed posting Sunday's shave. Here are the highlights: http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae243/Hawkeye5_photos/Shave%20Gallery/SOTD/WadeButcher.jpg Monday evening. Prep: Wash face with glycerin soap, massage lather into beard followed by hot towel. Brush: Shavemac. Cream: Good ‘ol Palmol...

There are some things I feel we, or I at least, need to acknowledge. Perhaps we as a group of dedicated straight razor users should have seen this coming. Just as the more senior fly fishers (of which I am one) were distraught and annoyed by the Yuppies invading fly fishing after the movie “A River ...