Thread: Frigged up my brand new Razor, I think.

Yep,

Purchased one of the SR starter sets from Classicedge.ca, it came within a week and I have attempted 4 Shaves thus far..
All of them failures. At first it was lather issues that I thought was causing tugging ( my lathering did actually suck), but after 4 attempts I think I frigged the edge up from my attempts at stropping.

Tonights shave was going to be great - had it all planned out and the lathering was perfect, grabbed the SR after the stropping, went to start on my cheek and bam! Tugged harder then ever.. F***!

So, with that said I tried the arm hair test and it won't even take the hairs off my arm..

I would assume its gotta be sent away to be re-honed? Input needed Please.

Thanks,

** This post may be in the wrong forum? (razors perhaps?) however.. I'm very much a beginner)**

I wouldn't send it off for honing just yet. I am occasionally amazed how my razors sharpen themselves once I sort out a technique problem.

Try less blade angle, move the blade slowly and limit yourself to your cheeks only until you get a good result. Start out at a spine thickness or two between the spine and your skin.

Your edge could, in fact, be to blame, but I wouldn't pass judgement yet. Unless you have either another razor for comparison, or an experienced straight user to render an opinion, I would work on technique first.

Bill,

Thanks for the reply.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very new at this and totally understand how important technique is. With that said, when I tried it on my arm I tried several different angles over and over and it wouldn't take any hair off?

Well, the other approach is to send it out to someone you can trust to hone the razor to shave readiness. Then, at least you can remove that as a variable. You might even ask the person doing the honing to evaluate the edge before honing.

The best solution, by far, is to find a way to get some hands on help from an experienced straight razor shaver.

Bill,

No one I know owns or uses a SR in New Brunswick, that I'm aware of !! Hahaha..

I will say that Phil at classicedge.ca is very good with edges, so the blade would have come in good shape.... That's not a variable.... It may be dulled from improper stropping.... When I strop, I always go as light as I possibly can without having the blade come off the strop pressure, or lack of, is everything with this sport

Originally Posted by Mrspiffy

Bill,

No one I know owns or uses a SR in New Brunswick, that I'm aware of !! Hahaha..

I'm in Nova Scotia hehe

Ecormier, thats not NB! haha

As for the stropping, I believe in the beginning I wasn't resting the spine on the strop and I think I was pressing to hard.. Damn.

Did you get a strop paste with your kit?

No paste, just the Classic Edge Russian leather strop.