I was just thinking my fricking boar bristle facial hair might be better handled by a straight razor. As it is now I have to shave 3 times in a row with a multi-blade cartridge to get to anything approaching dating smooth.
Hilariously expensive though. The rough neighborhood I grew up in, people would buy straight razors as uh, self defense items. As they were dirt cheap, and at least in theory you had a plausible reason to be carrying the item. As opposed to a switchblade or other knife with only one real purpose.
CalaverasgrandeI would try a double-edged safety razor before going all in on a straight razor. Coincidentally, I use blades from Feather in my DE and they're dirt cheap (as of this writing, Amazon has a 100 count box for $22.49). I still do multiple passes with that blade to get the desired smoothness, but I get multiple days' worth out of it. YMMV.