New member from Los Angeles!
Hello all! I'd like to take just a short moment of your time and introduce myself. My name is Alexi and I currently call home Los Angeles, by way of Cleveland, Ohio. I own a restaurant with my pops and have a small collection of classic cars......well......2......but still consider it a collection non-the-less.
For years I have wanted to use a straight razor like my grandfather and his father did. Something about it had always made me think that using a straight razor was "how it should be done, and how it should be." Wished, hoped, wanted, it's now all in the past. I'm now 32 and finally ready to take a crack at shaving with a straight razor. I believe that shaving with a straight razor is a time honored tradition passed down from father to son. Almost as a right of passage in a way. I wasn't given that opportunity growing up as my father used an electric, but one day, I would like to pass it down to my son, whenever that time may be.
Jumping into a new hobby as well as an online forum can be daunting for a newb. This I understand as I have been a newb on many cigar forums in the past few years. I try my best to get the lingo and abbreviations down as quick as possible before I ask the questions most of you hate answering like "what does Dovo mean". I hope to be able to contribute to the forum soon!
This may have been long winded but I hoped it came off as a proper way to introduce myself into a community that shares one common interest: the only way to shave.
Cheers!