Well, I got a shave ready razor in a round about way from altima55 through a gracious member here (tatsuo sp?) He had won it on ebay, and saw a post from me that indicated I was bidding also. He contacted me via pm and graciously offered the razor to be sent directly to me from altima55.

There is a great bunch of people here, and tatsuo is a very generous person for doing this!

On to the shave! I got all of the tools together (strop came in), and I had everything else as I am a long time DE user.

Today was the day to start. I stropped about 20 times and lathered up, and started shaving. Very close shave with a great blade! Had a little trouble trying to figure out the hand positions to do all the strokes. It was a little clumsy, but I will get there eventually.

Four passes, and BBS everywhere but around my adams apple. That is pretty much par for my DE shaves.

The question is, how do most people clean the blade between strokes? I tried a couple of different techniques, and receive the only nick from my first str8 shave on the index finger of my non-dominant hand when I tried to wipe the lather from the blade between passes!

At least I can say NO Syptic (but a bandaid on my finger)!

So how does everyone else remove the lather from the blade between strokes?

Thanks again to everyone on the board!

Randy