Greetings frum a Newbie

Hi everyone, I was surprised to see a straight razor shaving place like this one a few weeks back, so here goes with my "first contact" with fellow straight bladers. Been shaving with straights for over 5 years straight now, don't use anything else. My weapons arsenal- 3X 1920s Merkur straights-4/8, 5/8, and a wee mustacher, 2x excellent Thiers Issard -1937 Special, and Petit Francais, 1 dovo bone, 1 meatchopper Wade anb Butch, 1 excellent (and dangerous) Robeson SureEdge hammer marked. Severely lacking in the brush dept. been using 1 Kingston for 8 years, 1 excellent Caswell 4 years, in the market for an upgrade there.

I make knives as a hobby, most fellow knife collectors think I'm out of my mind with the cut throat shaving, so I hope signing on here will find me good company! (grin)

Best,

thewap aka Marc

Welcome to SRP!

sounds like you have a nice collection starting... if you are looking for a brush.. you came at the right time. there is a group buy of shavemac brushes underway... you will really enjoy them!

and again welcome!

Welcome to SRP. There is an unlimited supply of good guys here Marc.
You won't be disappointed.

Sean

It's good to have you here. There are certainly other knife makers aboard for you to connect with and lots of opinions about what brush you should buy too.

X

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Originally Posted by thewap

Hi everyone, I was surprised to see a straight razor shaving place like this one a few weeks back, so here goes with my "first contact" with fellow straight bladers. Been shaving with straights for over 5 years straight now, don't use anything else. My weapons arsenal- 3X 1920s Merkur straights-4/8, 5/8, and a wee mustacher, 2x excellent Thiers Issard -1937 Special, and Petit Francais, 1 dovo bone, 1 meatchopper Wade anb Butch, 1 excellent (and dangerous) Robeson SureEdge hammer marked. Severely lacking in the brush dept. been using 1 Kingston for 8 years, 1 excellent Caswell 4 years, in the market for an upgrade there.

I make knives as a hobby, most fellow knife collectors think I'm out of my mind with the cut throat shaving, so I hope signing on here will find me good company! (grin)

Best,

thewap aka Marc

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Welcome aboard! It sounds like you'll be bringing a lot of wealth of knowledge and experience to this site! You have a great collection of razors. If you need any taken off your hands, I'd be more than happy to help you out...

Dave

Hi Marc!:D

Welcome to the fold of straight weilding lads and lasses, I'm sure everything you need to know will be found across the forums here.

I have an awesome hand made Silver Tip brush, it is THE BEST in my opinion, but hey, I've only been straight shaving since July.:o It's great to have you here so dive right on in, the water is lovely............:w

Welcome to SRP. Enjoy your stay here.

As for your impressive sounding arsenal, the old rule of forums applies :)

http://www.oddpic.com/data/516/memento.jpg

Thanks all for all yur kind comments and warm greetings. To honor the old rules, I will try to post pics this weekend of my razors and stuff. :)

Welcome to SRP its crazy in here. So don't forget to weat your waders, cause sometimes the Shtic gets DEEP. :) :)

Welcome on SRP ...I havent been her long but the people here seem "Mostly Harmless"

Maarten

Welcome to SRP great to have ya here....
See ya on the boards, and you should definitely check out the Sunday and Tuesday chats as well, those are the busiest nights, but us real crazies hang out there most all of the time....

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Welcome to SRP great to have ya here....
See ya on the boards, and you should definitely check out the Sunday and Tuesday chats as well, those are the busiest nights, but us real crazies hang out there most all of the time....

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For clarification purposes only: There are two chat systems being used on SRP.

1. An old, abandoned cave inhabited by old people, aka The Flash Chat. It uses a stone age technology called Flash to make your modern browser crash and burn. It is used for the Tuesday restoration chat.
2. A shining, powerful IRC channel full of fun people, aka Chat. It uses state of the art technology (irc) to make your chat experience truly unforgettable. If you do not like the interface provided by this site (which, admittedly, uses a stone age technology called Java to make any browser crash and burn after a few days), you will find easy to follow instructions in this post, graciously provided by the venerable ByronT: http://straightrazorpalace.com/gener...-srp-chat.html

The IRC channel has been picking up momentum for some time, and you will usually get a response to your questions within reasonable time.

Welcome,

You are in great hands on this forum.

Welcome to SRP. I'm sure you'll find that you found a new home. Get aquainted with the site then I am anxious to hear about your experiances and what you have learned prior to and after SRP.

Welcome! As a relative newcomer myself, I can tell you that you made the right decision in registering. The folks here are as friendly as they are helpful.

G'day & Welcome Marc. Nice weapons arsenal.
Bring on the pics !

Welcome to SRP Marc - I'm sure you'll find lots of great information...I keep thinking to myself "just when I thought I knew how to shave...."

Mark

Here goes nuthing..my attempt to post pivcs as promised; :D
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From left; Robeson sureedge-sharp as hell-sings more than all the rest, WB select, (wuz a B. to restore), Hoffritz, Dovo- from right TI Special Coif (best shave),
Petit Francais (rocks), Merkur (rocks, most comfortable-close perform to TI, anuther Merkur , and the trim Merkur. Right column mint, left column near mint to mint-save for the WB.

That's a bad bunch there Marc !
Thanx for the pic. :D