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    Technique!!!

    Technique!!!

    Technique!!!

    When I started with a straight, I had BAD razor burn. I found through trial and error it was due to TOO much pressure. I used a mach 3 in the past, and found out very quick that I had bad technique. With a nice sharp well honed razor and a little patience, you will find this is a nice way to pamper yourself.

    Good luck, and happy shaving!

    Steve

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    If you're set on honing it yourself, then read all you can on the wiki about honing and honing tests. If you can't pass the arm hair test (away from skin) at all nor the HHT, then don't even put it to the face. I understand these tests are not tell-alls, but for newbies like me starting out, it works pretty good.

    BTW, it took 4 weeks before I am starting to figure out what is sharp, what is good prep, and what good stropping sounds like. These three things all come together to provide the nice shave. Mess up any one of them and you might as well be shaving with a steak knife.

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    Thanks so much to all for your input. I want to learn how to do my own honing but for now i think i'll send it off to the guy on this site that does it for free. Anything any one can tell me about anything to do with straight razor shaving i would love to hear it. Thanks, ron
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    just about everything is in the wiki.
    (its a tab up top)
    welcome to srp, lots of helpful fun people here

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    Quote Originally Posted by joesixpack View Post
    Fromm razors are made by Dovo. I have a Fromm and have had no trouble maintaining an edge on it. It is one of my everyday shavers.
    I think maybe we are talking vintage-vs-new production here...
    A vintage Fromm is a different razor than a new Fromm... Much like a Vintage C-MON is not the same as a new production C-MON....

    The new production ones are a very thick heavy bladed hollow ground very similar to a Double Arrow in feel, they have a matt black tang....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
    I'm on a free honing kick. If you'd like, I'll hone yours for free. Just send me a PM and I'll give you the information.

    Also, do you know about stropping?
    Also, what kind of prep are you doing?
    Also, have you read or watched anything to show you how to use a straight?
    Finally, have you read the section entitled Newbies Read This First?
    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

    You can get an edge on these, but.........................

    Not my favorite razors to hone and I have done a ton of them.

    Great deal here!!!!

    Lynn

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

    You can get an edge on these, but.........................

    Not my favorite razors to hone and I have done a ton of them.

    Great deal here!!!!

    Lynn
    Well I can't even tell you how many of them I've done.
    Okay, actually I can.
    I've never honed one, so that was part of my incentive to offer to hone it. Ronprice, I hope that doesn't scare you off. I should be able to get you a decent edge, it might just take a bit of experimentation to get it up to snuff.

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    Alright,

    Who jinxed me...........dang.......I just got in a new Fromm to hone. Bad enough that it's one of the new ones, but the shoulder is flattened to smitherines..........

    Lynn

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    I've tried doing it myself on 200/1000,4000/8000, and a arkansaw stone, and still don't have an edge that i can shave with. It is pretty sharp but i can't cut a hair by the hanging hair tec. Where can i learn how to get that right edge? ron

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lynn View Post
    Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

    You can get an edge on these, but.........................

    Not my favorite razors to hone and I have done a ton of them.

    Great deal here!!!!

    Lynn
    Lynn, what kind of razor do you recamend i buy and one that i can hone myself. What are some good shaving soaps to buy? do you recamend useing a preshave oil along with the soap? ron

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