Thread: Hello From Wausau, WI

I've been thinking about joining this great site for a time now and thought what the heck, this looks like a friendly bunch. I say that because I do not shave with a straight anymore. I've been wet shaving for the past 50 years and about 45 of those was with a straight that my father gave me, a very nice Double Duck. Over the past few years the old hands are not as steady as they use to be and the old joints (especially the shoulders) don't move as they once did (Advil is my best friend now). I did buy a Feathers SS Artist Straight (I hope that's not a dirty word around here) and once in a blue moon when I have an extra hour in the morning, I will do at least one pass with it, just to say I did. Most all of my shaving now is with one of my old vintage Schick G1 Injector razors.

But I still enjoy the ritual of the morning shave. For 50 years I never thought of shaving as a chore, but the most relaxing and refreshing thing a man could do for himself in the morning.

I am a member on several other shaving forums and go by my name, Johnny but someone already uses that name here. I use johnnypipe on other sites because my name is Johnny and I smoke a pipe. The picture in my avatar is me at age 3 in 1949. Trust me, there has been a lot of changes since then.

I look forward to communicating with you good folks that still shave the way it was meant to be.

Right on Johnny,

Welcome to the forum. Let's hear some more shaving stories....it'll be like fire-side tales.

Hello Johnny:

Welcome to Straight Razor Place. A number of us around here are switch hitters and use both the straight and the double edge. I am. You're in good company. And, too, some of us have a collection of decades notched onto our belts: the sales are wrinkled and the joints creak like the voices in a Gothic mansion. Yet here we are, celebrating the daily shave ritual. By the way, I am down the way from you in the Milwaukee area. We're delighted to have you with us. Stay well.

Thanks for the welcome guys. Obie, just trying to stay warm today. We have about a 1/4" of sleet/ice on the sidewalks and roads right now. Should turn in to all snow by some time this afternoon. Predictions are 8" of the lovely stuff.

Johnny, my dear friend, welcome to Wisconsin. It's either the snow and the sleet or waste your time under a palm tree with a chartreuse drink in your hand and the tropical breezes whispering silky daydreams in your ear.

Ha! I choose option B.

I have hated winter with a passion since I moved up here in 1989. I thought after retirement we just might move back down south. No such luck, the wife love the 4 seasons. I do like 3 of them.