Finding a barber for a Straight Razor shave

[causalfault]

Hey, all. One of my wife's sorority sisters is getting married in a couple weeks and wants to surprise her husband-to-be with a straight razor shave, and asked me for any insight on barbers who offer this service.

I, however, am at a complete loss as the last place I knew of that offered them no longer does. Does anyone know of anybody in Terre Haute, IN, that offers a straight razor shave, or know how I might go about finding that information? I've tried finding places, but my wife and I no longer live in TH so I can't ask around in person, and apparently my Google-fu is a little rusty, because I can't find anything on the internets.

Can anybody help me out at all?

 

[gaj90027]

I've read about way too many bad experiences to ever recommend a friend/relative to get a straight shave at a barber shop unless it will be long enough before the wedding to recover from razor burn.

 

[diamondtim]

Is there a city magazine? Maybe they rate barbershops.

Is there a high end barbershop downtown where the movers and shakers get their haircuts? Maybe near the courthouse? Where the lawyers get cleaned up for court?

Once you find a place, call and ask if they give straight shaves, if not, ask who does?

It would be neat to have the entire male side of the wedding party all meet at the shop and get shaves and trimmed up.

Good Luck.

 

[mblakele]

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=shave&ns=1&find_loc=burke,+va might work for you: the second hit ("Hi Barbershop") looked promising. Good luck.

 

[michiganlover]

I've read about way too many bad experiences to ever recommend a friend/relative to get a straight shave at a barber shop unless it will be long enough before the wedding to recover from razor burn.

+1

You hear about very few good shaves from a barber these days.

Most men who visit a barber for a straight shave report back to the board that the experience was a disaster: irritation, cuts, too much pressure used, severe razor burn.

Basically that they can achieve vastly superior results on their own in their own bathrooms.

Not to mention the razor used will be a "shavette (a tool that looks like a straight razor, but it has a disposable blade), rather than a real straight razor.

 

[causalfault]

Is there a city magazine? Maybe they rate barbershops.

Is there a high end barbershop downtown where the movers and shakers get their haircuts? Maybe near the courthouse? Where the lawyers get cleaned up for court?

Once you find a place, call and ask if they give straight shaves, if not, ask who does?

It would be neat to have the entire male side of the wedding party all meet at the shop and get shaves and trimmed up.

Good Luck.

Terre Haute doesn't exactly have a high-end anything. And, like I said, the one barber shop that I knew gave straight razor shaves no longer offers the service.

As far as I know, the plan is for all the men to go get shaves before the wedding, but I'm not completely sure.

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc..._loc=burke,+va might work for you: the second hit ("Hi Barbershop") looked promising. Good luck.

My wife and I live in Burke, but the friend we're doing this research for is in Terre Haute, IN, which returns no hits (well, one, but it's not relevant). Thanks for the site, though, I'm sure it'll come in handy for other things!

 

[tominabox1]

Congrats for getting out of TH (I graduated from Rose in November). You're not going to find a straight shaving barber before you get to Indy is my guess. You could offer to shave him with a DE - he'd probably get a better shave and enjoy it just as much. Of course you'll have to figure out the hot towel situation but I bet you'll figure something out. Wathc a bunch of youtube vidoes on how the pros do it and imitate them.

 

[causalfault]

Congrats for getting out of TH (I graduated from Rose in November). You're not going to find a straight shaving barber before you get to Indy is my guess. You could offer to shave him with a DE - he'd probably get a better shave and enjoy it just as much. Of course you'll have to figure out the hot towel situation but I bet you'll figure something out. Wathc a bunch of youtube vidoes on how the pros do it and imitate them.

I actually considered the do-it-myself option, but as far as I know the fiance wants to find him a barber and get the whole treatment. Then again, if I can find a nice comfy chair and a good bottle of whiskey...

Congratulations on graduating, by the way. My wife graduated from Rose in '07. Hell of a school. Her friends are actually getting married at the Chapel on campus. This'll be the second time in three weeks I've been back in TH since leaving in April. I'm not sure how I feel about this trend...

 

[Chimensch]

The whole thing is a terrible idea. I've been working on trying to get straight shaves into a barbershop in Modena for two years and I've run into nothing but disasters. Most barbers don't even know how to do shaves anymore because the schools stopped teaching it about 15 years ago. In most places straights are illegal. What passes for a straight shave is given with a shavette type razor with a DE blade. I have shaved with a straight for 30 years and get excellent shaves but when I try to shave others, the shaves are always terrible. I haven't yet figured out why. Forget the whole thing because there's a real risk of ruining the wedding.

 

[gaj90027]

The whole thing is a terrible idea. I've been working on trying to get straight shaves into a barbershop in Modena for two years and I've run into nothing but disasters. Most barbers don't even know how to do shaves anymore because the schools stopped teaching it about 15 years ago. In most places straights are illegal. What passes for a straight shave is given with a shavette type razor with a DE blade. I have shaved with a straight for 30 years and get excellent shaves but when I try to shave others, the shaves are always terrible. I haven't yet figured out why. Forget the whole thing because there's a real risk of ruining the wedding.

+1 if it was just a fun day out with the guys and you want to give it a try for the heck of it - no harm in trying. How annoyed is the bride going to be if every guy in her wedding photos has bright shiny red razor burned faces. Makes me cringe just thinking about it.

Proceed with caution my friend

 

[sjsowa]

If you go to The Art of Manliness web site, there is a list of Barber Shops that do straight Razor Shaves.