Thread: new razor fail

Welcome to SRP and straight shaving. Don't let this experience get you down. You can always send it to a honemeister and ask them to review it for a final honing that would suit any straight shaver. Sometimes, the vendors outside of the ones who advertise on SRP do not really have the razor shave ready, although they may claim it when they sell it. Trying to shave with one of these will be a little rough and can result in a lot of tugging.

Starting out straight shaving, I will say check out the Wiki on SRP. Faceprep is important and technique is very important. Technique takes time to develop and it is always better to just start with sections of the face and slowly build upon your progress.

Since you have doubt on your current razor, a friendly honemeister in training may be able to help you out and give your straight razor a once over with some comments.

Good Luck,

Pabster

I couldnt agree more with all things everyne has said thus far. Whipped Dog Straight Razor Sales has awesome "budget friendly" razors, that are professionally honed by one of our members. I say budget friendly because they're not cheap razors, just that he blew the bottom out of the prices so that newbies like us can get the eye for what to look at in vintage type razors. It's a great site, and he also has a policy that if you buy a razor from him, when you want to try a new one, just send it back and you get a razor of equivalent price for the cost of honing, so you get a taste of different razors. On top of that, the wikis on here have great tips on good razor brands, and the brands to avoid. Unfortunately any pakistani blades are on that list. Lastly, i hope you dont take any of the friendly joking around here to heart, but the thing with the "Soringen" razor, is that it is a rip off of the German quality made "Solingen"...pretty much you bought a Folex instead of a Rolex. Sorry, but those a the mistakes we make sometimes. Best of luck in the future.

Another good starting point vender, check Holli4pirating in the classifieds or PM him I've bought 3 from him for around 50.00 ea. and have not been disapointed. And he also will take time to answer questions. And check the other venders as well it will give you quite a range of choices. I mention Holli as a starting point only because I have first hand knowledge of his product.

Welcome to SRP. Have you done anything with the razor ? Amazon has a generous return policy. It is within the realm of possibility that you could return the razor and get a refund. Check out the SRP beginner's guide here for more info including which razors to avoid.

All great advice from the above! Sorry to hear about your purchase and first experience. Hopefully you can return it and purchase a proper shave ready blade from the classifieds to suit your budget. Welcome to SRP!

Welcome elreynol. +1 on all the great posts in this thread. You will find a wealth of knowledge on this web site. These guys are all very sincere and very experienced. Follow the advice given to you here and you will have no regrets. Take some time time check out the classifieds and some of the member vendor sites. There are some great deals on some truly shave ready razors.