Design Critique: Products For People

In which Tim Keirnan and Mike Beasley discuss vintage shaving tool designs, featuring the safety razor and straight razor. Shaving with these old methods has many advantages, including:* Closer shaves that last longer before the dreaded 5 o'clock shadow appears* Improved skin condition due to premium creams and soaps used* Lower cost of ownership (unless you start collecting gear as a hobby)* Sustainable technology compared with disposable plastic-dominated, modern, overpriced crap* Better user experience due to mindful nature of single-blade shaving that many find relaxing and even fun, due to the "gourmet" shave creams and soaps, brushes, and blades used. As Mike says, it's more classy.Two forums in particular helped us convert from multi-bladed cartridge monstrosities with industrial "goop in a can" to vintage shaving:http://straightrazorplace.com/Mike frequents this forum and likes it a lot.http://www.pogonotomy.com/Tim favors this one for forum owner Bruce's blog and the very international nature forum t