Thread: First Shave- Butter beard?

So I have a story of my first ever shave with a straight, and y'all are going to shoot me for it.

I got an ebay razor- that I could not find any details on- for 10 bucks. It's a Friedrich Baurmann and Sons 96, from Solingen (Blade stamp- Friedr. Baurmann & Sohne, Solingen, 96). Just got it. Definately not shave ready, scales aren't too good, some tarnishing. I'm sending it off to be rescaled and honed, but was eager to try it, so I metal polished it, stropped about 20 laps on newspaper, lathered up and went for it. Slowly- my whole face took 15 mins. And I only nicked myself once. But my beard was gone. Now everything I did was against all advice, but it was one of the cleanest shaves I've ever had, with very little razor burn. Either I hit a miracle razor, or my beard is made of butter. I dunno. So now put me in front of the firing squad for all my blatant vagrancies- I just thought the world should hear of this miracle. Too often I hear horror stories about terrible straight razor shaves and nicks and cuts and I'm glad thats not how it went with me.

Congrats on your first straight razor shave.

After you get that baby honed by a profesional it will even shave better my friend.

actually there's nothing wrong with what you did. you just could've had a lot worse results.
there's always the tails of the distribution, people win the lottery all the time as well, but i personally haven't been spending money on tickets

have fun!

I came out of the gate running too and it continued to improve in the months that followed. Some of us get lucky.

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Originally Posted by xman

I came out of the gate running too and it continued to improve in the months that followed. Some of us get lucky.

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And me, I just went for it.

Good luck, I bet you can't wait for your razor to be turned around coming home ready.

I jumped in with both feet as well, shaving with a half dull razor for my first shave. MY hair is incredibly course and even so it went over pretty well, no accident it just was about the same closeness as my gilette 40 blade. Then i got her sharpened and ever seince that day i was addicted

Congrats!

I'm even more surprised that a random dirty razor off ebay only stropped on newspaper gave you this good shave! I've had some that I've won that were fairly sharp, but even the sharpest and best condition edge that I've got so far I wouldn't have shaved with without honing it first! I would have advised you against it, but you can't argue with results!

Congratulations on your first shave! I am not surprised that the Baurman worked well for you. I have three and they all are nice shavers, and take and hold an edge easily. Good choice. As for being shave ready off e-bay, I have bought about half a dozen over the years that were actually ready to shave with stropping. If someone took good care of their razor, and it had been recently honed when finally put away forever, there is no reason it would not give a good shave many years later, unless water got into the picture.