Thread: Wapi NOS question

flylot,
I'm convinced that I should just get a shave ready razor but your advice that "Hopefully you have practiced stropping beforehand" confuses me. I don't have a razor and I wasn't planning on buying more that one (at least at first) so I won't have a second to practice stropping on. How are you suggesting that I practice stropping beforehand? Do I need to buy two razors (one to practice with and one to use)?

You can practice stropping with the back of a butter/table knife. The basic idea is to get comfortable keeping the spine of the razor (knife) in contact with the strop at all times so you can't roll the edge over and damage it. Use your wrist to turn the razor over at the end of each stroke using a rotary motion not a flipping motion.

A new shaver can damage the edge before they even get a chance to shave with it. This is why some of the Honing Pros send their razors out pre-stropped and ready to go (after cleaning the oil of of it).

Bettis, your missing the fun we're having here brother...

Gugi and I are messing around, the Wapi is your's for $38.50 less then the one you found, so that is FREE !!!!

Send me a pm if ya want to take her home...

I built two of them some time back, one went to the monthly giveaway and this one went to another new guy who just like you needed a razor, he not only sent this one back to me to pass forward, again but sent a few more with it for some others...

Just promise to "Pass it Forward" when your are in the position to, and it's yers...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Bettis, your missing the fun we're having here brother...

Gugi and I are messing around, the Wapi is your's for $38.50 less then the one you found, so that is FREE !!!!

Send me a pm if ya want to take her home...

I built two of them some time back, one went to the monthly giveaway and this one went to another new guy who just like you needed a razor, he not only sent this one back to me to pass forward, again but sent a few more with it for some others...

Just promise to "Pass it Forward" when your are in the position to, and it's yers...

See...isn't this a great place?!

Yes! This is a great place. I sent a pm to gssixgun and he is going to send it to me. I can't believe how helpful this place is.
-Brent

I got the Wapi that Glen offered me and so far I've got two shaves out of it. It wasn't as hard to do as I expected after reading some of the other posts from beginners. I've suffered a couple of nicks but overall it was relatively comfortable. Plus I'm already getting a better shave out of it than I used to with my Mach 3. I want to thank everyone for all the help!