Thread: Would it be wise...

Great advice from these guys.

One other point, don't get too attached to your first strop. There's a decent chance it'll get nicked up. I hope your practice goes well and you don't run into this!

Originally Posted by Blue

Great advice from these guys.

One other point, don't get too attached to your first strop. There's a decent chance it'll get nicked up. I hope your practice goes well and you don't run into this!

Oh Yea! I expect this to happen.

Why leave it as a "winter project"? Just get the stuff and shave. Buy or make a cheap, but decent strop and a good vintage razor. Unless you break it, the worst you'll do to the razor is dull the edge which can be fixed but the strop will take a beating. When I decided to straight shave, i bought a used strop locally for $40 and a nice dubl duck for $65 that was shave ready. I threw out or gave away all my gilette razors and started off doing my whole face right away. After 2 shaves there was no more irritation and I got the hang of it. Although I learned to shave with a straight, I moved to the Mach 3 and such after a few years and recently switched back to straight blades. Just don't think of it as a "project", becaus it isn't.

Originally Posted by burns420

Why leave it as a "winter project"? Just get the stuff and shave. Buy or make a cheap, but decent strop and a good vintage razor. Unless you break it, the worst you'll do to the razor is dull the edge which can be fixed but the strop will take a beating. When I decided to straight shave, i bought a used strop locally for $40 and a nice dubl duck for $65 that was shave ready. I threw out or gave away all my gilette razors and started off doing my whole face right away. After 2 shaves there was no more irritation and I got the hang of it. Although I learned to shave with a straight, I moved to the Mach 3 and such after a few years and recently switched back to straight blades. Just don't think of it as a "project", becaus it isn't.

This is exactly the way I'll be going.