Thread: I Am Tired...

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?

Welcome to SRP Mike. You are obviously a man who is jumping in with both feet. When you get back home and start out on that first straight razor shave take it slow and don't forget the beard prep and the skin stretching and you'll be fine.

Hi Mike, welcome to SRP. You mention stropping your razor before your first shave. The razor you purchased is "shave ready." That means it's already been stropped. There should be no need to strop before that first shave and I'd recommend not doing it. Since you're not experienced at stropping, there's a chance you might roll the edge, and not get the experience of what a shave ready razor feels like.

Sounds like you've put together a nice kit. Good luck with your first shave and travel safe.