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bogstandard:
This topic can get very personal, so don't take it to heart.

It has been mentioned before, that a large number of model engineers grow beards.

You only have to go around a show and you see hundreds of Gandalfs. Short cropped like mine, to overly long ones that definitely constitute a safety risk when working near machinery.

Can anyone explain this phenomenon?

It has even come to my notice when Ralph turned up last Saturday sporting a very sauve, short cropped, bright ginger goatee. It made him look like a very sophisticated gent, rather than the 'bruiser and troublemaker' he usually looks like. :lol:

Is it the fumes from the materials we cut that make us grow beards, or is it something we aspire to over the years. Or even, because we are so engrossed in our projects, we just forget to shave? :scratch:

Bogs

SPiN Racing:
HA HA HA HA HA

I think its the time and trouble to shave

I started with beards in the early 80s when a teen.. I had to shave when in school.. but it was always borderline.. and then full beard. Short cropped.
I shaved it to a goatee 10 or 15 years ago now.. and I have let the beard grow a few times.. i keep the goatee.  Low maintenance.

I think its cause we have soo many other things in our brains.. getting artistic with a razor takes time away from the other artwork.. of metal.

Darren:
Maybe it's a time thing (is that being lazy)

I like to think wer conserve everything we can. After all, heads loose a lot of heat  :ddb:

HS93:
It may be because they are locked in sheds so long , bit like Robinson Cruso, it's not untill they are draged out by there other half, powerwashed and told you are going out that you think about shaving. then its a mmmmm  that looks good, less time getting ready if I have face fuzz, ill leave it like that..   :ddb:

the other may be that a lot are retired and if like me had to look shaved and smart for there job, the relife of not having to is nice, also with me the last day I worked was the last day I wore a watch.. :borg:

Peter

sbwhart:
I had a beard for about 25 years, over the years it went from dark brown to snowy white, at the same time I went very nearly completly bald except for fringe of hair a bit like a monk, people thought my head was on upside down 

:lol:

The beard came off a few years ago when one Christmas on my way to a football match wearing a wooly hat in my team colours red, I passed a couple of youths one of the cheaky b****s said:-  hey up here comes Santa. 

:lol:

That was it the beard came off.

Cheers
 :wave:
Stew

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