I’ve lately sold a few of my razors and again find myself spending longer than I really intend sharing my subjective opinion on what new users ought to do with them. Of course there are guides out there (and plenty of videos but I’m happy to leave that part to others) but somehow I still feel compelled so I might end up writing one of my own. In order to combat this, I’m trying to gather a comprehensive list of contemporary guides and maybe pick a favourite.
I’ve tried to exclude any that are too superficial, just copied/summarised/LLM’d from elsewhere, or have outright bad advice. Did I miss any good ones? Did I include any I shoudn’t have? Let me know and I’ll try and keep this updated.
Overall (some incl. honing)
- Badger and Blade
- canadaeh97 2 3 4 (Reddit)
- CpnStumpy (Reddit and also sometimes here @CpnStumpy@sub.wetshaving.social)
- Kent of Inglewood
- Portland Razor
- Sharpologist
- Slash McCoy (B&B)
- The Invisible Edge
That’s just my own bias. I really don’t like videos with a lot of talking and use them mainly on mute just to see a visual demo of what I’m trying to understand. To that end when I was learning how to use a straight razor six or so years ago the video I found most instructive was this one without any speaking at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci9DT0qB3hc
Also there’s a tonne more videos to sift through. I’m happy if someone wants to curate a selection of them but would hope it’s a separate section from the texts.