Thread: Newbie intro.

Welcome to srp.

Learn to shave and strop with pro honed razors first. Then after the first year you can try honing. As by then you will know what a razors edge should be like.

The shavette, depending on what one you have used will be different than a real straight. Its somewhat the same but not the same.

Learning to shave with a straight takes time too. But a pro honed razor or two and a strop are what is needed to start. Leave honing for the year after you learn to shave.

Welcome aboard.!

I'm with them. ^ I started with a straight when I was 17. I'd already had experience with honing all sorts of edged tools n knives, starting at around 8 years old. So honing a razor seemed like it should be a piece of cake. Ha! It takes the whole cake, a gallon of ice cream, a few cavities, and a bald patch or two on your head, getting it dialed in.

And that's just setting a proper bevel.

Gonna need to learn anyhoo, so any thing we can do to help with, were here for ya. You might even like to learn how to restore your own razors, that's what I came here for. Got perty dang good at it too, for being done by hand, mostly. ( limited tools )

Creating your first shaving edge is very rewarding, indeed. But bringing one back from the dead....A indescribable feeling of accomplishment, of what most people would think of as, impossible. That's me.!

Hence my avatar. Young Frankenstein

Welcome to the forum. I will put the rest in your other thread.

Welcome to SRP!!
-Laramie-

Welcome to SRP. You have received good advice already. Stropping is the first skill you need to learn, even before shaving since you won't getore.than one good shave without knowing how to strop.

Hello,

Very glad to be here!

Originally Posted by Rlaw1969

Hello,

Very glad to be here!

Welcome to the forum
Putting your location in is a big help. A member may live close by

Thank you everybody for your warm welcome. Please remember I am very new to this but I have done a lot of research and I am really helping to put it into practice please be patient with me. You all have been so generous with your knowledge and I appreciate it more than you know.I do read and listen to your advice but I am very limited to what I can do with it at the moment.