Thread: FNG: The journy from shaving Boot to shaving Vet

So this is still all in the past as my last post got us up to about 2 weeks ago which I would like to call my "hump" week as its the week everything really came together.

Bootcamp part 3

It was at this point I was getting very frustrated, I have very steady hands and can have a very light touch when I want to (you try playing with explosives and PO'ed UXO's for nigh on 5 years without it ) but I could not get a even remotely sharp razor from my hone like we are talking butter knife dull, finally I reread all the post the Lynn has made and realized I had missed a VERY important step in my razor honing process, I had not honed my hone, *facepalm* so having realized my terrible mistake I looked for a low cost option to do so, settling on a tile square form home hard wear some wet 400 grit sand paper, and 4 clamps i went to work, and by god dam near took me 3 hours to do both sides till the all the pencil marks were gone, I did it again just to make sure and WOW what a difference, my first pyramid made a huge leap in the sharpness of my razor i work until I was sure the bevel was set, it would pop arm hairs, then on to a extended pyramid and boy was that thing sharp, passed the hanging hair test and would pop army hairs with the blade off the skin, so I stropped her, whipped together an amazing lather (by far the best Ive made yet), jumped into the shower, used my beard softener, and jumped into my shave.

All I can say is WOW, and I mean WOW, that first shave with a true shave ready razor was like heavens touch, wiping away my beard, so smooth, so effortless, I would not say BBS as I still don't feel comfortable going ATG with my left hand just yet and a half BBS smooth face would look rather humorous (I would never hear the end of it at work) no irritation, the blade was so sharp I cut myself twice and didn't even notice till afterwords, since then I have had equally good shaves and my average lather is improving every time, all I can say is WOW, I am converted.

note my work computer does not have spell check so this will get edited once I'm home but figured i have some time at lunch to catch you all up to where I stand at present, from here on I will be doing a more detailed post on each shave, hopefully i can start increasing my very sparse collection to 2 maybe 3 razors and a bunch of soaps, creams, ASB and other such stuff.