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    Hello all. New member from Colorado, or should I start, "my name is stove and I have a shaving addiction" .
    Started wet shaving about 6 months ago and using a straight about 5. Have a small collection of DE and Straights.
    I've been lurking for quite a while, just getting around to introducing myself.

    Cheers!

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    Welcome stove, there are a few guys in Denver floating around.
    Bread and water can so easily become tea and toast

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    Welcome to SRP stove. It sounds like you are content with the site & i hope you continue to use it as a place for meeting friends, for future references & learning bought straight shaving!
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    Hi stove. Welcome to the best place to feed your addictions. Any questions feel free to ask.
    My wife calls me......... Can you just use Ed

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    Glad you took the plunge and signed up. How has your shaving progressed so far?
    The older I get the more I realize how little I actually know.

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    Welcome and enjoy. As you probably already have seen there are a lot of interesting facets to be explored here.
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    Welcome. As a previous lurker you are well aware of the massive information contained here. Five months of straight razor shaving is just about where you really start to get the hang of things.
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    RezDog, yes this place is great. My favorite find, thus far, is the old school barber school text.
    MattCB. Shaves have really come along. I have a few trouble spots, but they are still closer than I can get with a cart or DE razor. My first shave, with a dovo shavette, was pretty ugly. Started with my right cheek, and was finishing up my left, before I realized my right check was weeping every where I had touched it. And the left started up as well in short order. I switched back to a DE for the 2 weeks it took for the rash to fully heal.
    A few weeks later I stumbled upon Straight Razor Design's store in Medina Ohio (I travel for work). Picked up a Dovo Astrale, 3" strop and a few other goodies and got a quick lesson on stropping. Wow, what a difference! Totally comfortable shave, but not very close. The closeness has steadily improved over time. Now I usually do a 2 pass shave (WTG, ATG) and then a touch up only pass to hit the rough spots. I rarely ever draw blood now too.
    I have a fairly heavy beard and used to get a pretty noticeable 5pm shadow. I still do, just a day later . But to be honest, that has only happened once due to some travel issues I didn't get in my shave. I used to hate shaving and would never think of it, if I didn't absolutely have to. Now I can't wait to get my shave in and have only missed shaving once since I started. The wife loves it as well.
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    BTW: I've also recently started learning to hone. Out of necessity due to dinging the blade, at first.
    I've picked up several antiques and have gotten them all shaving at this point. I've always been a knife guy and blade maintenance just adds to the hobby aspect. I'm far from a honemeister but with a norton 4k/8k, Spyderco UF and TI paste I can get them in pretty good shape.
    Funny thing is: newly honed or newly purchased, I notice the shave improves greatly after the first few. Anyone else experience this? Don't know if it is me dialing in with the razor or just a natural improvement from a few cycles of stropping and shaving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stove View Post
    BTW: I've also recently started learning to hone. Out of necessity due to dinging the blade, at first.
    I've picked up several antiques and have gotten them all shaving at this point. I've always been a knife guy and blade maintenance just adds to the hobby aspect. I'm far from a honemeister but with a norton 4k/8k, Spyderco UF and TI paste I can get them in pretty good shape.
    Funny thing is: newly honed or newly purchased, I notice the shave improves greatly after the first few. Anyone else experience this? Don't know if it is me dialing in with the razor or just a natural improvement from a few cycles of stropping and shaving.
    Yep, it seems pretty common to find people who prefer a few shave old edge over a freshly honed one.
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    Bread and water can so easily become tea and toast

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