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    Question What to buy...

    Hello everyone, its been a while since I've written on SRP, its seems as though my login name and password where erased sinnce I havent written for a bit so I created new ones.

    Anyways I bought my first straight blade like 3 months ago (robert klass solingen #207 5/8") along witha a hand-held strop (streich riemen), a fine grit spyderco whet stone and a kent silver tip badger hair brush. And since then I've learned how to actually shave (mabe not mastered but I kinda have a feel for it now...) and about honing and stropping but it seems as though half way through my shave my blade gets dull. And worst of all my blade has gotten several water stains, none of the red rust just dark and sometimes grainy stains. I've tried brasso and silvo and I've also honed it alot but nothing seems to take the stains off.

    Anyways I want to get a new blade, not because i think that the one I currently have isn't stain free or anything like that, it's because I want a bigger blade, a 7/8" or 8/8". So what do you guys think I should get? I think a Dovo would be nice or a Puma but those are really hard to find, and definetly a high carbon steel one. I'd love a damascus steel blade but they're kinda out of my price range.

    Thanks guys

    PS I'll probably also get a Norton 4k8k too...

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    The Norton will certainly help with the honing. Check over at shavingshop.com for a big blade - he carries quite a few in stock including the J.A. Henckels line - and you can't go wrong there!

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    Quote Originally Posted by da4kin View Post
    Hello everyone, its been a while since I've written on SRP, its seems as though my login name and password where erased sinnce I havent written for a bit so I created new ones.
    Great to have you back! The thing you missed was a database crash, taking the site back to October.

    Glad to hear you are making progress!

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    I think I'm going to buy this blade its a Henkel spanish point, which looks badass!!!

    http://shavingshop.com/index.php?ite...6category%3D33


    By the way crichton that avatar you have is my favorite plane the A-10 Warthog, Props!!!

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    Be sure to have that razor honed and also lap that new hone.
    Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin

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    Sure thing!

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