Cut Throat Razors

[Stitcher]

My dad always used a cutthroat, I can see him now with the brush and soap 45 years after he passed on.

 

[Morturn]

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My dad always used a cutthroat, I can see him now with the brush and soap 45 years after he passed on.

I still used an old fashioned cut throat razor, have a small collection of them in the bathroom, they do take quite a bit of practice to use.

I'm very much into nostalgia as a way of engaging with the past, and once wrote a short story about my grandfathers and his cut throat razor.

 

[Stitcher]

Hello Morturn, I have to admit that I never used one but the barber used to finish my haircut with a few strokes around the back of my neck with one.

 

[DavidGrain]

I remember we had some cut throat razors at school in the Biology Lab together with the leather strops to sharpen them. I remmber once using them to cut tomatoes for a party at school which gave the girls from the school next door quite a shock. Was once shaved by a barber in Manchester with a cut throat razor because I had forgotten to take my own safety razor. A bit nerve racking the first time it happens.

 

[Stitcher]

Imagine the first time you went a new barber for a shave, a complete stranger would be scraping a blade sharp enough to split a hair around your throat area.
Ooh no, not for me.

 

[Rupert]

It was not meant to be cut off. Have it trimmed with your haircut and save the trouble.

 

[Stitcher]

Rupert, I have had a beard for at least fifty years now because I used to get a rash on my throat and neck whenever I shaved. I tried all sorts of everything to no avail so I stopped shaving and I now have a female barber who calls at the house and trims my hair and beard for me.