Thread: Newbie from Jhb South Africa

Hello would like to introduce myself, my name is Jerry and live in Johannesburg South Africa I have been a part time bladesmith for around 9 years and hope to one day be able to quit my day job to make knives full time. About a year ago I was asked if I would be able to repair a friend's straight razor, I was a bit nervous at first as I had never even handled such a delicate blade before anyway to make a long story short I repaired the blade and put on a set of new scales. I had never shaved with anything other than a Gillette disposable razor up till then but was intrigued to find out what the big deal was using a old style cut throat razor, we'll I mustered up the courage to give it a go and we'll as I'm sure most of you know the rest is history as they say ,the bug bit I bought a couple of old broken razors online and fixed them up allowing me to get used to look and feel and I used those razors to shave for around 6 months while I learned more on razor repair and making. I have since repaired and restored more than 50 razors and have started making my own custom razors. Having made knives for a while I thought how difficult could it be right ? Well was I in for a wake up call making razors requires is a whole new level of concentration and precision that a I am slowly developing, it has really made me appreciate blade making on a different level. I am planning on specialising in razor making even though I have been making knives for so long the skills I am developing have improved my blade making skills more than I could have ever imagined. Hopefully this forum will help me on my exciting new journey.

Welcome to SRP Jerry!!
There's a lot of great folks and info here, check out the library......you may get lost in there for a while

We love pictures and congrats on getting into razor making. There's a few real good producers here that will help you out.

Enjoy and have fun!!!!!

Thanks alot Dave , looking forward to getting stuck in .

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Welcome to the forum and best of luck with your razor making. Seems we have a few members now in Joburg. Might be time to have a local get together.

Bob

Thank you Bob, appreciate the welcome. Would be a great help meeting with more experienced makers and enthusiasts something to look into.

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Welcome to SRP Jerry, great to have another Joburg resident amongst us.

There are a number of straight razor users in Jozi as well as Pretoria.

We also have a local forum which has a small but active participation at Mastershave.co.za, come around and say hi.


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Thanks for the welcome , glad to hear I'm not alone will definitely check out the forum.

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Welcome Jerry from the other side of the earth. Hope to see you displaying razors you make when you start producing. Great bunch here. Always eager to answer questions and help any way they can.
Leonard

Thank you Leonard, will definitely post pics along the way as well as pick as many brains as I can for ideas and advice.

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Welcome Jerry. There are several blade smiths here, I am not one of them.