A barber in Dayton named Otis showed me his comb and I've been thinking about it for two weeks

Nathan Schmidt · 2026-10-17T23:55:04.530314+00:00

I was sitting in Otis's chair at his shop off Third Street in Dayton getting a shape up and he stopped cutting to hand me his old cutting comb, worn down so the teeth were uneven. He said "I've used this same comb for 22 years, bought a new one once, hated it, went back" and kept cutting like it was nothing. Do you guys keep a piece of gear way past when it makes sense or is that just an old man thing?

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