Thread: Hi there!

Originally Posted by trewornan

Welcome! I think you've made very sensible purchases there. For what it's worth, some words of advice:

Get your razor honed.
Don't expect too much from your first shaves.
Don't try to get a close shave - go for irritation and nick free, close shaves come with experience.
Stick with it, it can be difficult early on - don't get discouraged.

You should expect rain today! Me and Trewornan agree!!


Or should that be, Trewornan and I? I can never keep that straight!

^lol

its Thursday and my razor hasnt arrived yet

Where did you purchase from? And is it being honed?

ebay..
i dont think that the seller hones my razor.i don't care too,i just want it to arrive!!!

ΟΟΟΗ YES!! my razor arrived at last!!

Nothin like that feeling when it first shows up! Post some pics if possible, im always interested to see what people have. Good luck!

thnx!
ill post pics @ saturday morning!

so!
here is my straight razor!!

Great lookin razor. Your off to a good start.

Originally Posted by trewornan

Welcome! I think you've made very sensible purchases there. For what it's worth, some words of advice:

Get your razor honed.
Don't expect too much from your first shaves.
Don't try to get a close shave - go for irritation and nick free, close shaves come with experience.
Stick with it, it can be difficult early on - don't get discouraged.

+1 Welcome to the forum!
Cannot emphasize enough that you need to get your razor honed by a honemeister. No matter what the manufacturer claims, they rarely, rarely, rarely ever have a good enough edge to actually shave after the appropriate amount of stropping.
Also, keep your strop taunt and your razor pressure light on the strop. You can easily ruin a well honed edge with a slack strop or too much pressure.

Keep us posted!
Welcome to the journey...