Hello fellow jr member,

I'm a newbie in more ways than one as this is my second attempt at writing this.

Haven't been here in a while and showed up to give report. Upon my purchase of "shave ready" TI's and Dovo, I was informed by the members of this site that I would REALLY want to have them honed by one of the honemeisters here first. Lynn did the honors (Thanks Lynn!) and I have been careful to strop correctly (Thanks Tony Miller!).

With the exception of some cuts (or gashes) because of stupidity on my part for the first couple of shaves, I have gotten beautiful shaves. I generally have what I suppose would be a tougher beard. (I also purchased my first ever stypic pencil because of those first shaves).

I'd take up the offers granted you and have a honemeister hone your razors for you, and to also make sure that you whet them on the strop correctly. I really like my 7/8's the best over the 5/8's because I have more momentum in my strokes and also because getting the hang of stropping was much easier with it. I'm now capable of stropping at a decent speed keeping everything flat and lite.