Beards?

Do you have a beard?

  • yes

    Votes: 131 64.9%
  • no

    Votes: 59 29.2%
  • I try but can't grow one.

    Votes: 7 3.5%
  • I'm a lady so errr no.

    Votes: 5 2.5%

  • Total voters
    202
  • Poll closed .

Asa Samuel

Native
May 6, 2009
1,450
1
St Austell.
Any non-tallow shavesticks that are just as good/cheap? My girlfriend is veggie so might not want to kiss me after I've smeared fat over my face ;)
 

sasquatch

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jun 15, 2008
2,812
0
48
Northampton
Erasmic is even cheaper and works alright but the scent is milder. I'm pretty sure it has no tallow but I'm not 100%
 

robevs73

Maker
Sep 17, 2008
3,025
204
llanelli
I do grow one occasionally but have been clean shaven for about 2 1/2 years now, by choice I would be clean shaven in the summer and bearded in winter but a ban on 'you know what' by the wife means no beard , she says it makes me look to old, I am old! 40 in a year and a half!
 

Harvestman

Bushcrafter through and through
May 11, 2007
8,656
26
55
Pontypool, Wales, Uk
My wife saw a picture of me without my beard and told me "That's horrible. If you ever shave your beard off, its a divorce".

So yes, I have a beard.
 

Ogri the trog

Mod
Mod
Apr 29, 2005
7,182
71
60
Mid Wales UK
For a number of years I was told to shave every morning "For Queen & Country"

Then I worked for a major toiletries manufacturer (The best [ha ha] a man can get) and had a beard throughout!

Nowadays I just can't be bothered with the faff of making myself look like something I am not!
It gets a trim occasionally if its hot but otherwise is left to its own devices.

Ogri the trog
 

sasquatch

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jun 15, 2008
2,812
0
48
Northampton
I'm surprised by so many people saying they either have one or don't because their wife told them to or not...
 

Berk

Tenderfoot
Feb 8, 2011
84
0
Northants
Goatee here, currently plaited and hangs down to my nipples. Now there's a mental image you don't want. Shaved off the (much shorter) beard that accompanied it the other day, just for a change.
 

JulesC

Tenderfoot
Jun 24, 2011
51
0
Midlands
Had goatee for years kept coming and going - four years ago grew a beard on holiday and kids thought it looked better (so did SWMBO) never looked back. A few problems though

1 - went to the CAMRA beer festival and that was beard central with lots of slightly strange crowd there.
2 - I have very dark hair (if you ignore the creeping grey) and my beard is ginger.
3 - this is the big one I look like my Dad now and turning into one's parent is a nightmare.

Does retain food for later consumption and keep face warm in the winter so I'm keeping it.

Jules
 

Harvestman

Bushcrafter through and through
May 11, 2007
8,656
26
55
Pontypool, Wales, Uk
Had goatee for years kept coming and going - four years ago grew a beard on holiday and kids thought it looked better (so did SWMBO) never looked back. A few problems though

1 - went to the CAMRA beer festival and that was beard central with lots of slightly strange crowd there.
2 - I have very dark hair (if you ignore the creeping grey) and my beard is ginger.
3 - this is the big one I look like my Dad now and turning into one's parent is a nightmare.

Does retain food for later consumption and keep face warm in the winter so I'm keeping it.

Jules

Ha! I'm blonde, and my beard is ginger (and grey)
 

Melonfish

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jan 8, 2009
2,460
2
Warrington, UK
I've been sporting a beard since i was 16. goatee mind the rest doesn't seem to grow to well. i cannot honestly remember any times when i have shaved it off. which means i've not seen my chin in 15 years...
thats quite mad.
:D
pete
 

Miyagi

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Aug 6, 2008
2,298
5
South Queensferry
I've got a goatee, had one since the early 90's.

Went back to the Army a few years ago and was told to remove it, I met them halfway on that, as I sported a mexican tache until I left, now got the goatee back.

Liam
 

Jacknife

Forager
Aug 27, 2005
101
0
Somerset
I've got a beard.

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Imagedude

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Feb 24, 2011
2,005
46
Gwynedd
Had goatee for years kept coming and going - four years ago grew a beard on holiday and kids thought it looked better (so did SWMBO) never looked back. A few problems though

1 - went to the CAMRA beer festival and that was beard central with lots of slightly strange crowd there.


Jules

CAMRA members are stranger than bushcrafters?
 

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