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

Chris,

Thanks for the insight. I will post in the b/s/t forum for a cheap shave ready razor; I already have an zeepk razor and strop to at least practice the motions with.

Any advice on what size and grind I should be looking for?

Any other advice would be great too.

Thanks!
Scott

There's more advice in a post I made yesterday. Click here.

In other words, the BST forum is good, but there are some members who have specials just for newbies, which you might want to look at first. The trouble with the BST is that really good buys get snapped up so quickly.... You almost have to watch it 24/7....

Originally Posted by fritz

There's more advice in a post I made yesterday. Click here.

In other words, the BST forum is good, but there are some members who have specials just for newbies, which you might want to look at first. The trouble with the BST is that really good buys get snapped up so quickly.... You almost have to watch it 24/7....

Der Fritzer,

Thanks alot for the links!
If nothing turns up from my post in the BST forum I'll probably go for one of the wapis w/hone vouchers.

Thanks alot again for the help!
Any other advice you may have for a newbie like me would be greatly appreciated.

Very Respectfully,
Scott

Hi Scott

Welcome to SRP. Keep an eye out for the Red Sticky threads, those usually contain loads of advice and help for newbies (I'm one too). No question is a stupid one and all will be answered.

Hope you enjoy your stay, see you around the boards.

Welcome to SRP Scott.

I hate to tell you this but you're gonna end up with more than one razor.