Dry Shaving
- Ouchmychin
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Dry Shaving
After many discussi0ns here at SMF on wet shaving methods I decided to just let my beard grow. After two days I didn't like the way my neck looked so I wanted just to shave that. But I was wearing a turtle neck sweater at the time and as I pondered what to do, laziness gave birth to a great idea. Why not try dry shaving with my trusty Schick injector loaded with a Personna 74 tungsten blade. No need to do many passes for I wanted to accomplish, so just against the grain. Neck got real smooth in one direction but some areas want to grow horizontally too. I shaved them off and then decided to give just the middle of my cheeks a trim. All felt well and smooth for a couple of minutes but the stinging started and now I am going to try to soothe with some balm. Not a method for every day, but I am surprised how well it worked --and I didn't even have to rinse my razor. Just kept it dry and blew the whiskers off. My, My.
Ouchmychin (Pete)
Re: Dry Shaving
Now that requires some pretty large quihones...no doubt!!! I've never tried dry shaving because I just enjoy the "preparation" to much!!! Grew a beard in my younger days...but the military-man in me got the better of the whiskers and off it came. Nope...no dry shaving for this homey!!! Semper-fi Mike
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My hat's off to you Pete! Just give you some whiskers and a blade, and off you go to fight lions in the coliseum! You're a legend!
Gary
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Re: Dry Shaving
With the razors I prefer I think I'll stick to using a lubricant with them.
I have a buddy who tells me that he dry shaves. I think you both have a much larger pair than I have.
I have a buddy who tells me that he dry shaves. I think you both have a much larger pair than I have.
Brian
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Re: Dry Shaving
I almost always trim the ends of my sideburns using a dry razor. I do this once or twice a week to keep them in a straight line cut.
- fallingwickets
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Re: Dry Shaving
Like Wendell, I do a tiny touch up now and then dry too, however, i cannot imagine a full shave that way.
clive
clive
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Re: Dry Shaving
I dry shave the back of my neck with a de razor once a week, works fine. Wouldn't try this on my beard, though, as it is much tougher.
Janus
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Re: Dry Shaving
Reminds me of the movie "The Dirty Dozen".
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Re: Dry Shaving
My, my Pete....at your age and you NEVER tried this before now? ( chuckle ). I've dry shaved when I felt I had to ( a few times in the '70s mostly ) and while I 'got away with it', like you, it is not an approach I would recommend. BTW, lucky for you that you were using a really good blade or it might have been worse.
Regards,
Gordon
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Gordon
- DoughBoy68
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Re: Dry Shaving
Now that is someone I don't want to meet in a dark alley!
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Re: Dry Shaving
Sure, it can work, but so can an electric which also comes with a built in beard trimmer.
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Squire
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