Results 11 to 20 of 29
Thread: Just starting out, HELP!!!
-
05-15-2009, 03:40 AM #11
3 words for you
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
-
05-15-2009, 05:09 AM #12
- Join Date
- Mar 2009
- Posts
- 45
Thanked: 6If 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.
-
The Following User Says Thank You to spoulsen For This Useful Post:
RONPRICE (05-18-2009)
-
05-16-2009, 05:06 AM #13
Thank you
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
Last edited by RONPRICE; 05-16-2009 at 05:17 AM.
-
05-16-2009, 05:19 AM #14
just about everything is in the wiki.
(its a tab up top)
welcome to srp, lots of helpful fun people here
-
05-16-2009, 02:41 PM #15
- Join Date
- Jun 2007
- Location
- North Idaho Redoubt
- Posts
- 27,031
- Blog Entries
- 1
Thanked: 13245I 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....
-
05-16-2009, 02:49 PM #16
- Join Date
- May 2005
- Location
- St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Posts
- 8,454
- Blog Entries
- 2
Thanked: 4942
-
05-16-2009, 03:13 PM #17
- Join Date
- Jan 2008
- Location
- Rochester, MN
- Posts
- 11,552
- Blog Entries
- 1
Thanked: 3795Well 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.
-
The Following User Says Thank You to Utopian For This Useful Post:
RONPRICE (05-18-2009)
-
05-17-2009, 03:39 PM #18
- Join Date
- May 2005
- Location
- St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Posts
- 8,454
- Blog Entries
- 2
Thanked: 4942Alright,
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
-
The Following User Says Thank You to Lynn For This Useful Post:
RONPRICE (05-18-2009)
-
05-18-2009, 02:58 AM #19
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
-
05-18-2009, 03:11 AM #20