Thread: Pure Beginner with the Straight

OK... better

A new tool.
A superb razor kindly sent to me by Mikael, a Geneva Cutlery Co straight which he describes as a "shaver". Oh yes thankyouverymuch! It is, and it does. I still limited it to one cheek, but pulling the skin as recommended. It worked nicely.







Rest of the shave was with a brand new Feather AS DE (with Feather blade) which also arrived today.

Life is good.

Rod

Hi Neep, welcome to the forum. I'm new to straight razor shaving myself, and from the dozen or so shaves I have had, I can tell that it will be a long, yet very satisfying learning curve! On my first shave I did my whole face, and while it went surprisingly well, I think I that was a bit of a one off - my shaves since then have been quite inconsistent in quality, smoothness, etc. I then adopted the approach you're taking, i.e. shaving little bits with the straight razor at a time and finishing off with a safety and found that helped alot.
I see you have some Scottish Fine Soaps products - I came across them earlier and wondered what they were like. How do you find them? I really like the look of the dish the soap comes in, very classy! Maybe as a Scot I'm just a bit biased though

Originally Posted by barrieduncan

I see you have some Scottish Fine Soaps products - I came across them earlier and wondered what they were like. How do you find them? I really like the look of the dish the soap comes in, very classy! Maybe as a Scot I'm just a bit biased though

The soap doesn't just come in a classy ceramic bowl. You should see the silk lined box it comes in! The sort of thing that you would set before a king for his morning shave.

It isn't expensive either!

Oh yes.... the soap is exceedingly good too.
I like it. A lot.

Rod

Yeah, I saw the presentation box the brush comes in - looks very suave! I'll add the soap to my ever-growing wish list, cheers!

Well.... for the sake of continuity, I'll follow up here.

I am still only shaving my cheeks with the straight, following up with a DE and Feather blade to complete the shave.
BUT
I have now reached the stage where the DE won't shave off any more hair from the places where I have used the straight.
So I count that as a resounding success.

Shhh !! Not a nick so far.

Rod

Great progress report! Keep it up.

Thanks for the update.