Thread: help im a noob!

thank you I think I will buy the double arrow off ruprazor your info has been priceless to me 10 out of 10 thank you all for saving me from buying absolute rubbish

the strop I'm looking at is this Scalpmaster Barber Strop: Amazon.co.uk: Health & Beauty would it be ready to use?

We have an awesome resource here, the wiki. About your initial question, let me direct you to an entry of the wiki on razors to avoid:

Brands of Straight Razors to avoid - Straight Razor Place Wiki

I think that you have received great advice already but I with this introduction of the wiki, I hope to make you more independent. Also, we have a pretty large community here and you would soon discover that a lot of straight shaving related stuff in dependent on personal preference. This means that sometimes you ask a question and could receive up to 20.000 answers, depending on the question. There is not a unique way to achieve results. By looking into some references, this decision making "problem" would be greatly reduced. I am very grateful to this forum for all the advice I have received since I joined. Before that, I had only 1 razor, a Filarmonica 13, which I bought ages ago and paid close to what a lot of these Pakistani razors sell for. Obviously, when the time for buying a second razor came, naturally I looked into buying one of these razors... SRP saved me from wasting my money... ;-)

Al raz.

thank you Al raz that has certainly made things easier and I see what you mean about getting loads of answers