Thread: Is it me or my new blade?

Hi, and welcome to the forum. What they said...

I read the list on Ebay and you can get your money back if you so desire. It might be a cool knife? Check our classifieds here. You should be able to find a razor. Good razors are not cheap, and cheap razors are not good. A new qualtiy straight razor out of the box, like Dovo will run about 80 bucks, give or take. Straight Razor Designs is having a sale on them right now, it will be honed by Lynn Abrams, and it'll be good to go. If you decide to go on the classifieds and need help, Most anyone here would be glad to help you, or PM me. Welcome......

Rich

Welcome to SRP. Sorry to see you got a bum razor. To answer the 'is it me' part of your question .... until you go through the learning curve and pick up the preparation, lathering, blade angle and light touch it will be you even with a shave ready razor. Just be patient and persistent and follow the tutorials in the SRP Wiki and you'll be getting bbs shaves sooner than later. Here is a post by SRP founder Lynn Abrams on starting out shaving with a straight razor.

Originally Posted by zib

Good razors are not cheap, and cheap razors are not good.

Right on , Zib ! It's a shame that they are allowed to call these things razors . They are not razors . They look like razors , but the steel and heat treat are far short of what is needed for a functional razor .

Oh look a soap box!

Those are pretty poor razors, you can ask an Admin to change your user name too if you want.

As you mentioned you didn't spend much, so not much loss on that one.

Buy a real razor and start over again.

Never, never, never use a "chop-chop" method with a real straight. I don't have any idea what that is, but keep your face and no "chop-chop", okay?

Now, soap box in place.

Its never a question of "is it you or the razor", you are always responsible for both. So, to answer your question, its still you. So, choose a good blade and learn how to use it (to include honing and stropping). But, its not really the razors fault, even though you'd be better off with a spoon.

Okay, down from my soap box.

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

you'd be better off with a spoon.

*stares at a spork*
*stares at the forge*
*stares the sharpening stones*

Chop Chop is baaaaddd! Sorry about the razor It sucks to get robbed. I have to tell you I have purchased some very nice shave-ready razors from the classifieds here. I've never been sorry. SRP has a hoard of straight shaving information that will take you away from chop chop and on to smooth BBS shaving glorious goodness.

I like what I see on razor designs. I will try and find something there and with the 10% off DOVO sale I will probably go with that brand.