I may use one here and there if I notice a spot I may have missed after the bathroom is clean and all hardware and software is put away....minor touch-ups only
Does anyone switch back and forth to cartridges?
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You are not alone either.
I'd use a cartridge / disposable if I had to travel by air without being able to check in luggage, but would probably prefer to post DE blades ahead or pick some up when I arrived if possible.
I did used to manage with cartridges before I went to a DE, and now that I know about proper prep and lather I'd probably get fairly decent results, but I don't think I'd enjoy it much.
I did used to manage with cartridges before I went to a DE, and now that I know about proper prep and lather I'd probably get fairly decent results, but I don't think I'd enjoy it much.
I know. Probably you were using foam or canned gel weren't you? I know it is true carts clog much easier and all that, but as for the shaving comfort, in my experience they weren't so bad. I always used a brush and Palmolive cream, for many, many years... It was working perfectly for me. Just that I got tired of the price, and I also didn't enjoy shaving as I do now.
My wife was complaining all the time...
I started to think about what could I do to make me enjoy shaving more often, and discovered DE shaving. I figured millions of men, all those decades using DE razors couldn't be wrong... and they weren't. 
George; I agree. It's like shaving with a cart without the clogging and cost. I haven't used my carts since joining B&B but I'm not throwing them out, either.
During WWII, and for about six or seven years after, Gillette made razors in bakelite , an early form of plastic. I don't know if would pass airline muster, but you certainly can find them in the vintage market.
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/250784-2x-WWII-G-I-Gillette-Tech-Bakelite-Boxed-Razors
I still keep some for head shaving in the shower. I haven't used one in some time but they are quicker with fewer cuts. I haven't completely mastered head shaving with a DE.
I didn't toss my disposable razors and cartridges when I started shaving with a DE because I'm cheap. I saw it as a waste of money to just toss the stuff. I figured I would eventually use it up shaving the back of my neck or traveling. It turned out that I shave my neck just fine with the DE and I haven't flown anywhere.
Now I go back to the modern shaving systems each year during Lent. Last year I used the last Mach 3 cartridge, but I'll be a couple more years using the Atra-compatible store brand cartridges and disposables I already had on hand at the time of my conversion.
Now I go back to the modern shaving systems each year during Lent. Last year I used the last Mach 3 cartridge, but I'll be a couple more years using the Atra-compatible store brand cartridges and disposables I already had on hand at the time of my conversion.
I know. Probably you were using foam or canned gel weren't you? I know it is true carts clog much easier and all that, but as for the shaving comfort, in my experience they weren't so bad. I always used a brush and Palmolive cream, for many, many years... It was working perfectly for me. Just that I got tired of the price, and I also didn't enjoy shaving as I do now.
My wife was complaining all the time...
Yeah, I was also using canned gel "creams" as well, so that prolly didn't help either.
Now that you mention it, while I have been shaving with a DE razor for over 10 years now, I only recently made the switch from Nivea gel to Proraso creams in the last 2 months and my shaves have improved drastically.
Maybe I should switch back to carts!
naaah!
I agree. I actually have much love for the original sensor. I wish i hadn't thrown mine out years ago. It was the best cartridge razor i've ever used and all the silly ones after that were rediculous.
But now that I wet shave i'll never use a cartridge razor, especially if i'm in a rush. I'd just do a 1 pass with the edwin jagger and be perfectly presentable and have a happy face.
I use a Trac2 for travel as well. Good razor, but not as fun as a DE.
I started using a double edge razor in about 1982. I would alternate between that and a cartridge of one form or another until a couple years ago when I decided it was one blade or nothing. I had always used a brush, though there, too, I would sometimes use a can of foam if I couldn't find cream or soap for the brush.
I never knew whether the irritation, bumps and ingrown hairs I got were from the crazy old school methods I would try to employ or from the cartridges, which for me would always clog, maybe because I didn't shave every day. Don Johnson was on TV every Friday night with the greatest guest villains ever cast, what can I say?
Since going completely old school, straights or safety, I don't have the problems I used to. They've been replaced by new ones. I mean, I used to have one brush and two razors, the cart and the DE. Now . . . but that's another post.
The short answer, then, is no.
I use a Mach 3 and canned shaving cream when I travel. They work well for me, but I prefer a DE with my brush and soaps. I never
use canned goo at home.
use canned goo at home.
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SWMBA adopted my cart handles and spare cartridges a few years back. I do enjoy a fresh cartridge from time to time and she seems to be unable to detect if a cart is fresh from the packet or months old. So, every so often I use a shiny new Mach3/Wilkinson/KoS cart for the first shave or two and then pass it on to a life of gunked up leg shaving for months on end.
A few months ago I was in a rush and thought using a cart would be quicker but the shave was so irritating I vowed not to do that again. If I am in a hurry I use the Musgo real Cream brushless and my DE and I am just as quick as with Froth and Cart but get nicer results. I only keep a cart for when I am flying with carry on only and I have yet to fly that way.
I have not shaved with a cart since I started traditional wet shaving almost a year and a half ago. Not one shave with a cart.
No.
No. However, I have to make a confession: Yesterday, as I was getting ready to soak my brush and moisten my puck (boy, that sounds off-color 
), I realized that the train that I had to catch was actually leaving an hour earlier than I had thought when I set my alarm the night before. AAGGHH!!! I did a 2-minute shower (remembering my days at Fort Polk) and then did the unthinkable --- a quick skim with a... Norelco! Mea culpa. Having undergone that ordeal, I promptly went back to a New Long Comb with a Feather this morning. Boy, I sure missed it.
), I realized that the train that I had to catch was actually leaving an hour earlier than I had thought when I set my alarm the night before. AAGGHH!!! I did a 2-minute shower (remembering my days at Fort Polk) and then did the unthinkable --- a quick skim with a... Norelco! Mea culpa. Having undergone that ordeal, I promptly went back to a New Long Comb with a Feather this morning. Boy, I sure missed it.
