For quite awhile now I have been slithering around all of the SRP forums and have gotten tired of lurking.
I am currently working on a heavy construction project in Escravos, Nigeria. Not a great place. I get to go home to Katy, Texas every 8-weeks, stay there for about 3-weeks and then travel back to Nigeria. BTW - Home is better. Anyway, I digress...
Sometime around 1966 I began shaving with a double edge safety razor and of course nicked and cut myself every so often. Then like many people I switched to an injector type razor, still cutting and nicking. Next was a cartridge type. This started to becom a routine, so over the years as 2, 3 & 4 (haven't tried 5 blade) blade cartridges came out I decided to try and really lacerate my face getting twin, triple and quadruplet cuts & nicks. Pimple years were hell on styptec pencils and there was a run on toilet paper for a while.
Anyway (to make a long post longer) I went back to double edge safety razors earlier this year with a Merkur HD & Feather blades. Not to bad, shaves real good and I have decided single lacerations are the way to go. Through all of my shaving years I have threatened myself with doing major damage to my face & neck by slicing with a straight razor. I am now getting real close to a straight razor mangling of myself.
Thanks to this forum I have been visiting with Mastro Livi, Chandler, Dovo, Dubl Ducks, Max Dorner, Boker, Frank Warner & etc., numerous leather, linen, cotton, and denim strops, barber, Norton, Japanese, Esher, Belgium, and diamond stones, rocks and gravel. Where am I now? Still in Escravos untill 22 October...
John Crowley at ShavingShop.com has sent a Heribert Wacker, "All Around-Master", 6/8 Spanish point, full hollow ground in ebony scales & supposedly "Save-Ready" to my home in Texas. It must have been the last one available cause I can't see it on that website any more. I will test its ability to slice my nose, ears and carotid artery in about 2-weeks. But only after...
Stropping it on the linen and then on the Latigo leather side of my 2.5-inch Artisan "Traditional" Hanging Strop that "The Well Shaved Gentlemen", Tony Miller made and sent to Katy, Texas.
Then yesterday I had a few minutes to lurk on the SRP forum's classified section and saw member "hi_bud_ql"'s ad for a Frictionate 00 Barber hone (one of the best - he said) & the next thing I know there was a "sold" indication next to the ad after I bought it. Though I don't expect to use a hone for quite awhile unless I drop my razor onto my foot "Wackering" off a toe or other appendage.
We have a pretty good medical clinic here and just before leaving for home I intend to speak with our doctor and ask him for a suture set & then I should be well prepared for my 1st straight razor shave. 911 is on speed dial on all of my phones at home and an EMS Ambulance is only 4 blocks from the house. Medical insurance premium payments are paid.

Oh, yeah, in looking at the notice of what this "Newbies Corner" forum is all about, I understand I must ask a question...

Does this count as 2-posts?