# Schick PWN3D! or WTF, Gillette??? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731 "2006-02-02T21:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731/81 "2006-02-07T14:55:28Z")
All you have to do is wait for the google-trac, the razor with the most number of blades before infinity. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731/82 "2006-02-07T14:59:09Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > All you have to do is wait for the google-trac, the razor with the most number of blades before infinity. Eh, I’ll just settle for the googol-trac. I don’t really want sponsored advertising on my razor, even if it is shilling for different types of shaving cream and aftershave. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731/83 "2006-02-08T04:12:06Z")
Oh, and [Hitachi just pwn3d Gillette.](http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/hitachi_rotary_waterproof_electric_razor_with_10_blades_.php) This puts the amount of blades we’ll see sometime in the 22nd century at 10! or 3,628,800. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731/84 "2006-02-08T04:36:33Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Eh, I’ll just settle for the googol-trac. I don’t really want sponsored advertising on my razor, even if it is shilling for different types of shaving cream and aftershave. I can’t believe I spelled it google. They’ve taken over my brain. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731/85 "2006-02-08T04:44:14Z")
There is a whole lot of old school machismo in shaving with a straight razor. The plastic orange thing just dosen’t have it. It looks more like a fisher price toy. But the straight razor always seemed to me to be a big pain in the butt. So straight razor guys, how much of a pain is it to keep the razor honed? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731/86 "2006-02-08T15:54:51Z")
The Hitachi looks like a frickin’ lawnmower! Keeping a straight razor sharp is pretty damn simple. Mine is somewhere around 130 years old (Yes, I shave with an antique King Cutter from the 19th century) that I bought from a guy at straightrazorplace. Honing is a fairly simple task – simply run the blade backwards against a leather strop. Some people prefer to run it against a rough cloth strop first, then against the smooth leather. While I have a strop that I bought at a barber supplies store, I stopped using it because I prefer an old guitar strap instead ( longer and wider). You don’t want to run your razor _into_ the strop, because it’ll just cut into the leather. Every year or so you’ll want to put a new edge on your razor (or if you’re clumsy and nick the edge against your faucet…). Just grab your trusty grindstone and do it by hand. Unless you’ve got a wedge razor, you’ve got something that’s beveled. (It’ll be T-shaped in cross-section). This means you just lay the razor flat – so the bottom of the T (the edge) and one of the crossbars are lying on your stone. Grind away with a smooth, even, light stroke, flipping it over every 20 strokes, then 10, then 5, etc… Then strop strop strop at least 50 times. _Shaving_ with the thing is a horse of a different colour. Suffice it to say that if you mash the thing into your face like a clumsy teenager using a regular razor you’ll be covered in blood. You want to hold the blade close to the plane of your face, then draw it lightly across your stubble. It’s a very different technique than using something with a pivoting head that is designed to be pressed very hard into your jaw. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schick-pwn3d-or-wtf-gillette/342731.md?page=4)