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Just bought a whipped dog razor and poor mans strop. Can't wait for them to get here. I've been shaving with a DE razor for a year and a half now and wanted to try straight razor shaving. I'm excited, my wife thinks I have too much shaving stuff already.
Everyones wife thinks they have too much shaving stuff!
Turkeyman, Welcome to the forum.:)
Lol I just been shaving with a straight for about three weeks and you should see how much stuff I already got! Everything is either so nice you gotta have it, or so cheap you gotta get it!Quote:
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I bet she's right :-)Quote:
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Don't forget to take a look in her beauty case.
hello turkeyman, welcome to srp, im a chicken or beef man myself,
Pete
Welcome to the forum, as has been said, your other half thinking you have too much stuff is a common theme. One razor and one strop is not a huge addition though. Well unless you've currently got a razor and a stick of soap and a brush, then I guess you have increased your collection by 66.6% recurring. I seem to be amassing shaving creams currently. Though my collection is still modest, and.mostly lower end.
Soon you start to get a bit of this and that and then she'll be like "your obsessed". I mean 15 razors, 8 paddles, 12 hones, 4 strops, a few creams and soaps, 4 brushes, 7 pastes/sprays etc etc isn't that much for 7 months is it. I'm sure you've all done it.
I'm with kees. I got back into straights about a month ago and went from 3 razors that I've had for 25 years to 18 now and waiting on the next to arrive. but then I looked at my wife's beauty shop in the bathroom and don't feel bad.
Heresy. Lock her out of the house for the night. Tell her you had too much love for one night.Quote:
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Welcome, friend ;)
Welcome. to borrow a Tom Petty line "the waiting is the hardest part". Once you get it enjoy the fun. Just remember do not strop your newly honed blade before your first shave.
I also bought another shaving brush and some more soap. She doesn't think I need 4 shaving brushes, 2 DE razors, a straight razor, strop,and several soaps and creams. What she doesn't know is I'm already planning to buy a new straight razor, strop, and some hones if I like the straight razor shaving.
I received my razor last Monday. It looks nice for a sight unseen razor. So my thanks to Larry at whipped dog. I haven't got use it yet as I just got back from vacation. I will get to use it today. I will post my results.
wouldn't dare. can't say i'm hen pecked just hen house ways. besides I just retired and she's the one buying my toys.
Welcome to SRP turkeyman.
Remember...Straight razors are a lot like Lay's Potato Chips. Nobody can own just one.
Well, I did my first straight razor shave today. I ended up with a lot of razor burn. I am pretty sure it was due to too much pressure. My face feels like it did when I switched from cartridge to DE. You would think I would remember to use light pressure after using a DE for so long. Oh well. I'll chalk it up to the learning process. I did 2 straight down passes with the straight then did a cleanup with my DE. The shave itself is pretty smooth.
Best advise I got pressure wise is don't shave just wipe the lather off.there is no need for pressure.
Pressure and too high an angle are usually the culprits when razor burn happens.
I bet its your shave angle. Start out with the razor completely flat against your face. Now rotate the spine out away from the face so that the gap between spine and face is equal to the spine thickness. That's a pretty good basic shave angle. More outward makes the shave more aggressive. Too much and you are just scraping and not truly shaving. More inward makes the shave more gentle. Too much, and you might lose cutting power, though I find that a really sharp edge will shave okay even when the spine is nearly touching.Quote:
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Stretch your skin, too. Tight skin resists cuts and abrasion. Plus the whiskers pop out better, if you are stretching it back up against the grain.
I was advised to start out with two WTG passes, and that has worked nice for me so far. I am trying to get it down to one WTG pass and I am getting there, still with pretty good shaves. Are you going ATG? If so, you need a REALLY flat shave angle, and a couple of good clean WTG/XTG passes first.
A good slick lather is important, just like it is for DE shaving, but most guys like the lather for straight shaving to be just a little wetter. YMMV.
+1 for what TulaneBoy said.
Good luck for the next shave.
I don't ever go against the grain even with my DE. My skin is very sensitive and I am prone to ingrown hairs. Also I have to watch what soaps I use and can only shave with room temperature or my face will break out. I bought some TOBS Sandlewood shave cream only to discover that I was allergic to it. To tell the truth, most of the time I shave strictly with cold water. On another note, my lather was a bit on the runny side. I was using my new silver tip brush and it holds much more water than my tweezerman brush. I will definetly have to pay more attention to my shave angle and pressure though. I knew as soon as I did my touch up pass with my DE that I had been pressing harder with the straight than I do with my DE. Thanks for all of the input.
Welcome, turkeyman79!
Do you have hard water? If so, try some bottled water. Also, make some uberlather(buy some glycerin from walmart and put a couple drops in you scuttle or on your soap puck, both...)
Also, I use shave oil. You might give it a try. also available at walmart. I've shaved with it alone. It's pretty non-alergenic, I think. Eucalyptis(sp?) and menthol plus other junk.
Just an idea.
Hold fast! Success is around the corner.
I have started putting the water into my lather mixing bowl, which my soap lives in the bottom of, and then use a dry brush to mix it all together, it gives me more control of the ratios.
Interesting, Ed. I soap my puck in the scuttle in hot water until I am finished with my shower. I then empty the bowl almost completely. Few drops of glycerin and fire up the squeeze dried brush which also soaked in the hot water.
Kind Regards,
Siguy
Siguy, I put in one capful of bottled water, along with a blob of cream and glycerin in, also all the old lather from my brush goes back in the bowl too. It is usually still almost useable the next day but I dump in new ingredients anyway.
I'm going to simulate that with a soap puck right now. Cap full of bottled(check that. 3 caps full. You had cream, I have soap, Musgo to boot), dry brush, few drop of glycerin.
I use Palmolive soap, with musgo cream.Quote:
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