Thread: Thank you so much Outback!

Drove from Nashville back to Niagara ONtario a week ago and passed near by Akron. I was going to print that piece of map Outback provided showing all his favourite antique stores in Ohio. My wife kept reminding me that we had reached our credit limit while camping so I never got off the interstate.

I’ll have to go back when I’m more flush. I have never seen an antique store up north of the border with that kind of razor assortment.

Originally Posted by outback

It can be done, think about how hard it is for me to refrain, when I have antique stores all around me, full of razors n such.

Here's just one case, out of many others.

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Are those yours or a display case in store?

Steve

When I first started straight shaving, Outback Mike was one of the first guys to reach out and offer help. He is still my choice for whenever I have a blade that needs honing or whenever I have a project that is beyond my paygrade. This site is full of super helpful folks, but Mike is an absolute peach.

Originally Posted by STF

I've had nothing but good advice and guidance from the members of SRP. It's very obvious that the members genuinely care and want new shavers to succeed.

I am astounded by Outbacks generosity and when I record my 20th shave in a few days to let everyone decide if I have improved compared to my 12th shave and hopefully give me some more helpful advice, I will be using one of the razors that Mike sent me for the first time.

A shave in Mikes honour.

Of course I am using the other two, but saving one for the video(scary square point).

Steve

Your twentieth shave will be no better than the 12th, its only after about fifty that you start getting better. I was totally afraid of square points when I started, and was sure that I would lose an ear or slash my nose off. Once you get used to it though, its no different than other blades.
Welcome to the club and buy more blades. (Send me a pm and I will tell you a secret source online where you can get blades at a fair price and sometimes some really great ones. Some of my best scores came from this place.)

Originally Posted by STF

Are those yours or a display case in store?

Steve

Its just one display case, of many thru out the store.

These are mine, minus three.


There's others not pictured, and others waiting to be restored.

Originally Posted by outback

Its just one display case, of many thru out the store.

These are mine, minus three.


There's others not pictured, and others waiting to be restored.

Totally speechless (or gob smacked as we say where I come from).

I don't know how you can remember what you have let alone shave with them all.

Can't wait till I have that many but I guess I'll have to wait a while and build slowly.

Steve

P. S.
Thanks for reducing your collection by three.

@Outback,

Hi Mike, I shaved with the smiler you sent with the ornate spine.

Damn it was sharp, worried I might take my head off.

Definitely sharper than my Dovo, but I still feel the Dovo shaves well so if I am using my strop properly I should only get it sharper from what I understand. Unless I misunderstood.

Steve

Originally Posted by DZEC

Drove from Nashville back to Niagara ONtario a week ago and passed near by Akron. I was going to print that piece of map Outback provided showing all his favourite antique stores in Ohio. My wife kept reminding me that we had reached our credit limit while camping so I never got off the interstate.

I’ll have to go back when I’m more flush. I have never seen an antique store up north of the border with that kind of razor assortment.

Were u on I-76 East, 77N, or 71N, if so, you passed some good stores.

Not necessarily, sharper. But smoother, more comfort to the skin.

If its pulling more to get thru your beard, than my edges, its possible that its dull. But also u must consider what stone it was finished on. I can get a great, comfortable shave off a Coti, but it comes thru my beard with more resistance, than my Esher, or synthetic hones.

Guess I should have sent one honed on a Coti, one on synthetic, one on the Escher. Barber hones, are impressive too, as well as Thurigans. I can finish a blade on either, but they all feel different from eachother.

Originally Posted by Haroldg48

Bad news, Steve...there is no cure! Next come brushes,soaps, aftershaves, strops, hones, etc., etc., etc.

Enjoy!!

Heres what arrived today!



Actually I have a doctors appointment next week. I'm gonna tell him I have caught RAD and see if he will give me a prescription for a few razors

Steve