Thread: Another Newbie looking to join the ranks

Welcome, Scott. We're glad to see you here.

I've been drooling over the vintage razors at SRD as well. It's very common when starting out to compromise the razors shaving edge to some degree or another; worst case - chip or ding the edge...not so worst case-bring the edge out of true shave ready status when learning to strop correctly.

I would certainly assume that all razors on SRD are sold shave ready. But, because of the fairly high probability of reducing a shave ready edge to something less acceptable when starting out, I recommend you either or also post a Want To Buy (WTB) thread in the Buy Sell Trade forum here asking for an inexpensive SHAVE READY razor. That way you have two if you decide to buy one from SRD.

My intent is not to discourage you or set you up to assume you're going to compromise your edges. You may very well be OK. But, it doesn't take much for a straight razor edge to go from keen to something else. Sometimes it's just incorrect stropping and a very good, proper and thorough stropping brings a shave ready razor back. Having more than one razor to start keeps you shaving if one, for whatever reason is out until the problem is fixed.

Chris L