Straight-razor shaves

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What about a barbershop that also includes a head massage?

Barbershop Deluxe on Columbus Ave. near Clarendon. Albert gave me a nice shave with no bloodletting.

in the South End, Washington St. I go there religiously for haircuts and have had a few shaves. Always a good experience.

http://tweedbarbers.com/

I have a tough enough time letting someone touch me for a haircut and sitting still, but a straight razor? You must be OUT YO MIND!

And a head massage? Just Eww.

You guys are crazy. I shave myself.

and manscape too.

http://cappyinboston.blogspot.com/

Not only is it an awesome haircut, but it comes with a complimentary straight razor neck shave. I don't know how much the full shave is , but the prices all seem reasonable.

I got one once at State Street Barbers, now Tweeds, in the South End, when I grew a pencil-thin mustache for a costume party and wanted a professional trim job. It's relaxing, letting your beard soften under a hot towel, the experience of the old single-edge technology. Worth doing once. It also makes you appreciate the convenience of giving yourself a close, fast, nick-free shave at home with modern multi-blade safety razors.

The ability to give a straight-razor shave is one of the things that differentiates a barber's license in the Commonwealth from a cosmetologist's (hair stylist's) license. The training for the two are rather different: it takes a thousand hours of schooling, an 18-month apprenticeship with a Master Barber, a long written test, and a live examination of your haircutting and shaving technique to get a barber's license.

On Highland Ave in Somerville. They'll do a shave anytime, but I always preferred to go off peak. An excellent job by the guys there. The whole hot towel experience.

The Luxury Box on East Broadway will also do it, but I don't know about peak hours.

Elite Barber Shop is very affordable they give you a full shave included for $15. They take their time too, I'm pretty bald at this point but he still managed to spend a good 15 minutes carefully trimming everything. I was impressed.

... I got a (sort of) shave with an old-fashioned straight razor -- at a Quebecois folk music concert. Benoit Bourque (then of Matapat, now of La Bottine Souriante) asked for a volunteer -- and being in the front and enchanted by the music (and urged by my children), I volunteered. One of the other band members then said something disconcerting -- "I sure hope your insurance is up-to-date". As it turns out, there is an old-fashioned folk dance and song routine in which the dancer shaves a seated person (towel, later, straight razor, and all) while step dancing about. BB also had a Jason mask (which he pulled out of his back pocket) and wore (while behind my back -- as I wondered what everyone else was laughing about). Luckily, I survived (and got a free CD, as a reward). Later Benoit Bourque confessed that he had once shaved the mayor of his Quebec town -- and misjudged (but no permanent scar). Consequently, by the time he got around to me, he was merely removing lather and not _really_ trying to do an actual shave.

Adam, right in the square, Rialto does straight edge shaves.