Thread: Introducing myself

hey all, just getting sick of throwing money away on disposable razor heads, and filling up landfills, too!

a bit about me- 24, single, corporate monkey, bald by choice, so i go through a lot of razors (taking a mach 3 to my head every morning seems to wear it down pretty quickly!)

Frameback solingen razor, 6/8" round tip - Straight Razor Place Classifieds

just sent the money for that, and now i need to find a strop!
looking forward to not buying another razor for the rest of my life!

Welcome aboard! You should be happy with that razor as C utz has a lot of experience restoring razors! All think highly of him.

Welcome to SRP. Straight razors are great but it does take time to learn the proper techniques. Spend alot of time with the WIKI read the threads about razors, shaving .ect... and do not be afraid to ask questions. You will need more than a razor. A strop, shave soap, mug and a brush for starters, from there you will expand to hones, aftershaves, and the like. Glad to have here. I wish you success.

You may want a second razor just in case something happens to this one (dinged blade , in need of sharpening, and the like). Besides there are those here who thought that way and now have many razors (RAD) they can't walk by one without seriously considering buying it. Personally, I'm up to 12 in less than 2 months.

Technically that's a faux frameback, but it's beautiful. You picked a very good "rest of your life" razor. Given how nice that razor is, and given the propensity for new shavers to damage their first razor, you might want to buy a cheaper "sacrificial" razor. This will also allow you to have a backup razor if you need to have one sent out for honing.

Welcome to SRP.

You got yourself an outstanding razor there. Congratulations.

Common recommendations for beginner strop's include those of Tony Miller and Kenrup. Piece of advice: Don't buy an expensive strop. You will nick it. We all have.

Good luck, and do keep us posted.

Regards,
Robin

Originally Posted by jehan60188

looking forward to not buying another razor for the rest of my life!

You're in for a big surprise.

EDIT: +1 on BeBerlin's recommendation. I know that Tony Miller offers a practice stop for $7.50 extra when you order one of his normal strops (e.g., 3" latigo). I wish I had found out about that first -- got a cheap beginner strop from Amazon, but it wasn't nearly as inexpensive as the practice one Tony offers.

welcome to srp. shave in good health!

Originally Posted by commiecat

You're in for a big surprise.

EDIT: +1 on BeBerlin's recommendation. I know that Tony Miller offers a practice stop for $7.50 extra when you order one of his normal strops (e.g., 3" latigo). I wish I had found out about that first -- got a cheap beginner strop from Amazon, but it wasn't nearly as inexpensive as the practice one Tony offers.

There's hope. I got by on four razors for ten years...then I found ebay... On second thought...

+1 on Utopian and Welcome to the group. Lots of great advice has been given but most of all do consider going back to the classifieds and getting a cheaper blade for starting out. Don't run the risk of damaging that beautiful razor you just got until you have some more experience.

Ray

Welcome to SRP. If my experience is any indication you will love straight razor shaving once you get past the learning curve. Here is the SRP Wiki with tutorials to help you do so. If you have any questions along the way don't hesitate to ask.