Thread: Good starter razor

What's a good starter straight razor around 200$.

There are also some good choices in the classifieds here on SRP now.

+1 for the classifieds here or SRD. Just make sure it is truly shave ready.(Will be if ordered from SRD) Get ready for a truly great experience!

My personal view is that for $200, I'd be looking for at least 2 shave ready razors, if you don't have one already.

Two is one, and one is none. If you have two razors, one will keep you going while the other one is being honed. If you only have one blade and something happens, like you chipped the edge on the bathroom faucet, rolled the edge on the strop or it's just plain time to hone it back up, you are going to have to wait for it to get honed, or, if you are like me... you have to wait until you find the time to hone it yourself.

It's not that it takes a long time to hone a razor, if it's in good shape and you are comfortable doing it, it just takes that extra time I never seem to have, thus I have a 'pile' of dull razors......

One of my best shaving razors cost me $14 and some elbow grease, my $350 Custom hardly gets used.... and when I do, it's mostly out of guilt, not because I WANT TO. Have a look at the Classifieds for one or two vintage razors that are shave ready and you'll be all set. In fact, I just bought a very nice vintage razor off the Classifieds for $90 and I can't wait to get it. It's in my favorite size and shape and should give me great shaves for as long as I live.

Then again, I've got three more coming from Gssixgun, these were repair/full restores of Ebay razors I picked up about 10 years ago + that affore mentioned $14 razor that needed new scales to make it close without having the blade cut into one side. Sure, I've used it like that for about 10 years, but it was my first razor that I honed myself, it's my test bed for new hones, and it's my most reliable shaver so I thought I'd treat it to a new set of scales.


I tend to ramble on... if you're still with me, just get at least 2 razors for that kind of money and you'll be happy.


Regards

Christian

Where are you. If outside the US there are other reliable sources we could recommend

I'm in North Carolina. I've got brushes and soaps. I was given two GD. So I've done been shaving with a straight for around 6 weeks. It's something I thank I'm going to stick with. I just thank I might have better luck and shaves with a little better razor.

Y anything that's shave ready will be better, not saying the GD,s won't shave it's just they probably haven't been pro honed to be right. So get you a fair priced one in the classifieds that is shave ready ,and then your ready to try this out for real, tc

Is a strop included in that budget or separate? If included you will have to research what good strops cost and factor that in before you spend on a razor.

If you have everything but a nice razor, I would still highly recommend the Ralf Aust 5/8 round point and if you don't have a good quality strop you might still look at the strop and razor set and as chriswilson10 said upgrade it to a 3", very nice package deal.

Anybody know anything about a Kama kind of pale yellow scales.