OT - first razor for teen

[DerbyBorn]

Any recomendations for a first electric razor for Grandad to but for his grandson?

[Jabba]

DerbyBorn wrote

Ladyshave

It's only bumfluff

[Andrew May]

?

.... oh, you said electric.

[Adrian C]

Round head, or block head?

Something highend and pretty damm expensive. You will save him a lifetime of shopping for incrementally disappointing upgrades from the basic models. Well, in my experience.

In a lifetime, how many electric shaver models does a bloke purchase?

[The Natural Philosopher]

I inherited one (Philishave) as a teenager when my father died, and hated it. I used his old fashioned safety for years till it got lost somewhere.

Muts get another proper old fashioned safety razor

Running on disposables: cheaper than the replacement blades for all the fancy crap they want to sell you...

[Brian Gaff]

Well, when I started it was like steel wire and the poor old Philips could not cope. I now use Remmington rotary head ones as they seem pretty reliable. Need a lot of clening though. Brian

[ARW]

Same here

Sorry but it has to be the Gillette Mach 3. Disposables might work if you shave every day but if I leave it 2 days a disposable just fails to work

[Adrian]

Disposables work just fine for me, and I don't even want to know when I last shaved daily... If I leave it until "birds nesting in beard" stage, they still work just fine.

Although, sometimes, I am tempted to just skip straight to the strimmer.

[Tim+]

As many as he needs before he learns how to wet shave.

Tim

[Nightjar]

Plug the strap into the mains.

[Mike Barnes]

Angle grinder.

[The Natural Philosopher]

[DerbyBorn]

Mike Barnes wrote in news:c4a1ggFrjdcU1 @mid.individual.net:

So no strong views on rotary (Phillips) v Oscilating - (Braun, Remmington)

[Mike Barnes]

No strong views from me certainly. It's nearly 50 years since I used any kind of razor.

[polygonum]

I like that my Philips works happily wet or dry. Which seems quite appropriate for the newsgroup. I have been pleasantly surprised how well it copes with two or three days of missed shaves.

[Harry Bloomfield]

DerbyBorn brought next idea :

When I first started, I used a Phillips twin head battery razor. I've had a few of the triple heads since then, with no real problems. My only experience of the oscillating type ended with a painful experience of the foil perforating, grabbing my beard and ripping skin. The Phillips heads seem much more robust.

My regime is one of both wet and electric razor shaving. I only take a wet shave in the bath or shower, but not always - more often I will have a quick tidy up with a Phillips triple head rechargeable electric razor, usually whilst doing something else.

Wet shaving, I use a triple blade razor which with my mixed regime seem to last for months, with shaving gell - but be aware (as I found out) there are fake replacement blades, which are more blunt than a blunt thing straight out of the packet.

[The Medway Handyman]

None. If you have a beard :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

Well done that man :-)

[Harry Bloomfield]

Adrian C has brought this to us :

I've gone through around a dozen electric shavers and probably as many wet shavers, starting with a safety razor.

I've never tried a cut throat, but have a mind to, after an hairdresser used one to do my neck a few weeks ago. A bit of research suggests they now come with with either a normal sharpenable blade and ready sharpened throw away blades.

[spuorgelgoog]

A visit to Trumper's for a shaving lesson?

(The equivalent for cut throat is £75)

Owain