Hey guys I'm a barber for 18 years, glad this place is around!!

I love this place, thank everyone of you for keeping an art form going strong! At my shop, we shave around people's ears and back of the neck after EVERY haircut , so I get to use my trusty Double Duck everyday. The guy I work with is 73 and been barbering for 50 years.......he is a wealth of knowledge and a great guy. I'm thinking about carrying razor and razor supplies in the shop. ( we dont a this time) I'm thinking and array to start with, a few higher end and a few mid to lower end products. I think having a brick and mortar store will expose people to the idea that wouldn't usually research it on their own. You guys would love the shop, we have a hot lather machine, straight razors and strops. Anyway, I'm not going to get on here and ask a million questions before I do the research on the past posts and get up o speed. I just want to find out what is desired in a razor and get up to date on suppliers and the like! Thanks for having this place you guys are awesome!

Welcome to SRP!

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Originally Posted by robscissorhands

You guys would love the shop, we have a hot lather machine, straight razors and strops.

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Photos of shave gear are always welcome.:)

Welcome to SRP

Jonathan

I'll get back to you on the photos Leeatherstockings. This is my first hour here so i'm like a kid at a candy store!

Welcome to the most friendly, helpful and informative site on the web!!

We will be looking forward to hearing from you!!

One thing that will help would for you to modify your information to include where you are! There may be other straight razor users close by!!

Again, Welcome!!

looking forward to seeing pictures of your barbershop :)

I always look forward to sharing information and experiences with a fellow barber. Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you could teach me a thing or two. I've only been in the business for 5-6 years.

Sorry guys, thats a great point cudarunner. I'm from Elizabethtown ,Ky . I live about four minutes from the Gold Vault at FT Knox

Welcome. As for the business stuff I would expect that a pivotal point pin being competitive with some of the other shops selling shave gear would be the ability to sell shave ready. I think the guys selling not shave ready are actually shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to repeat customers. My two cents.

Hey there wyobarbershop! I do also have an instructors barber license BUT the one thing I try to tell people is we can all learn a thing or two from all our fellow barbers. You have been in the biz long enough to have paid your dues!

Hey rob, ive been a barber 15 years and am in Richmond KY, welcome to srp! Ive been to Etown a billion times, my ex was from that neighborhood. I clean up customers razors, hone em, rescale em and the like, and carry shave products at times and place orders for customers as well.

"ability to sell shave ready. I think the guys selling not shave ready are actually shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to repeat customers. My two cents."

Hey RezDog.... please clarify shave ready and not shave ready. I may be reading it wrong. Thank you!

Ready to shave vs pops hairs vs dull as a butter knife basically lol

Bet I have a few of your old customers btw, whats the name of your shop?

Hey Dennise! Love Richmond , I have family going to school there as we speak. Yea,,,,,I'm going to try to get something like that going here in etown. I have the retail space and its a growing thing so I think its time to add a line of products.

Yeah you need to, unused space is still space you rent, heat, etc, may as well profit from our captive audiences.

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"ability to sell shave ready. I think the guys selling not shave ready are actually shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to repeat customers. My two cents."

Hey RezDog.... please clarify shave ready and not shave ready. I may be reading it wrong. Thank you!

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Ready to shave vs pops hairs vs dull as a butter knife basically lol

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Typically straight razor that come from the factory are advertised as 'Shave Ready' I've purchased a new straight razor and the factory edge was 'decent' however after a proper honing the edge was excellent!

If you look at Straight Razor Design you will find that 100% of all of the straight razors are 'custom' honed by Lynn Abrams the founder of this site!

I think that by selling a custom honed razor you would be doing your customers a huge favor and probably make them repeat customers.

You could also offer honing services and perhaps classes to help others and to add to the profitability of your endeavor!

It's just a thought! :shrug:

Its Andy's Barber Shop up on Woodland drive ( Behind the hospital)

Got it cudarunner. Thank you. Yea we have actually done that for some of our guys that got sent to Iraq. We would put a nice edge on the razor and send it to them.

Ill stop in if I ever get out there, feel free to drop by if u make it to richmond, always like chatting with other barbers. Dennis's Barber Shop half mile from I-75 if u ever pass through

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Sorry guys, thats a great point cudarunner. I'm from Elizabethtown ,Ky . I live about four minutes from the Gold Vault at FT Knox

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I used to live on the vine grove city limits. I. Louisville know and will most def make a trip down to check out the shop sometime. May have to bring some of my favorite blades.

Do you all do full shaves? I have a shop here in Louisville that says they will give the shave if I bring the razor. They say the only thing they can't use is a brush and soap. And they use feather AC for neck and sideburns.

Welcome aboard and enjoy

Restoring a blade for a customer right now, his last razor got confiscated on his way home from iraq...gave him a blade to use till I finish his.

Hey thanks Dennis! Where did you go to Barber School? I went to tri-City in L-ville with Steve Kennedy

I went to Bailey's Barber College in Lexington under Paul Bailey, turned awful tho up there, gotta love government prison rehabilitation scholarships.....barber working for me now couldnt get the G I Bill to pay for his barber college yet theyll put felons in there all day long for free.

Oh and hes a 26 year vetran with two bronze stars, pretty sad

We dont at this time we get so busy doing cuts we dont have time and that's a service that is ruined if its rushed. I always thought it would be something to do on a appointment basis. I may explore the idea . We do neck shaves with real straight razors. I live up on High Street in Vine Grove.

We started doing them again, takes about the same amount of time as a haircut and costs the same price. Plus they tend to tip big

Well I did use my GI bill BUT I know what your saying. I have a BA in Psychology,,,,wanted to get out of barbering BUT its a job that grows on you. Most of those guys ( not all ) on the free prison ride......wont last in the biz for very long.

yea but we get stacked up in there and if guys are waiting then they find out they gotta wait for a shave too,,,,,they usually dont have time to wait, we just do walk-ins.

Just added a 4th barber and 5th one starting in August. Trying to combat the pile ups

Open 7 days a week spreads the customers out, each barber has a different set of days off, works out very well

thats awesome man!!!!

When I opened the shop 2 octobers ago I figured id break the mold

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When I opened the shop 2 octobers ago I figured id break the mold

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5 barber shops! Ur doing such a good thing! If I find my way up in your direction I'll have to stop by... My folks live in Indiana and I make the pilgrimage often

5 barbers in 1 shop, not 5 shops :-P

But stop by anyways lol

Oh... Hahah still a good thing!