Thread: Hello from beautiful, Ohio. Land of grass!

Hello, I'm new to the forum (Hence my post) and new to shaving with a straight razor. I received a gift set from Zeepk.com, all the essentials were include. Razor, strop, soap, dish, brush. All for the winning price of 30$. It was a birthday present...

I was able to shave with it, much like you would shave with a steak knife. Now I'm here looking for my next razor. I've seen some Dovo's and others just trying to find whats right.

I have a technical background, work on computers and networks all day. Usually hanging around teamhackaday.com a folding team that works on a lot of hardware hacking projects.

Any help would be appreciated.

Welcome aboard. For starters: GET RID OF THE ZEEPK SET!!! Once you do that, I'd recommend going to www.thewellshavedgentleman.com and get a real razor, hanging strop, pasted paddle strop set. You will get a good razor that will also be shave-ready, a strop to align the edge and a pasted paddle strop to keep it sharp by touching it up every 5-15 shaves.

Ilija's got you going in the right direction - welcome to SRP and good luck with acquiring what you need!

I am thinking about buying a Wostenholm - Very Neat-Pipe Razor, I assume this is a good razor.

Yes it is and if you watch there will be one in the newby sets I am making. It is not yet done in the pictures.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=16163

Or you can put up a WTB on the B/S/T forum if you want to get everything individually

I anxiously await the aforementioned newbie thread.