Thread: first timers' kit

Originally Posted by a10112

part of the purchase was to teach me how to use my own strop and stone. there's a chance he may let me use the stone, but he's made it clear I'm not to touch the strop (i might cut). note: he's a bit greedy.

Use a newspaper rolled up.

Originally Posted by Wintchase

Use a newspaper rolled up.

...as a strop or to smack dad upside the head for being greedy?

I started out with the sight unseen deal from whippeddog.com, the razor came shave ready, bought myself a cheap badger brush and some williams mug soap from amazon for around $75 total.

But watch out that RAD is a slippery slope.

Originally Posted by seshmarls

I started out with the sight unseen deal from whippeddog.com, the razor came shave ready, bought myself a cheap badger brush and some williams mug soap from amazon for around $75 total.

But watch out that RAD is a slippery slope.

how is 75$ for a brush and soap, "cheap"? Does the brush have to made of badger bristle?

edit: re-read. the blade, brush and soap is 75$ total. sorry.

Cheap solution for a stone is a piece of plate glass and some wet/dry sandpaper. If you look you can get grits from 100-2000. I started that way. Still have the plate glass. 1/4" plate glass cut to size was like $4. Then some wet/dry sandpaper from auto parts store in 800, 1000, 2000 grit was around $15 total or so. Then the whippeddog.com kit should keep you well under your budget.

Just my $.02

I have heard good things about the whippeddog deal and you can get a brush at target or a drug store for about 8 dollars that is not bad you can also go to a beauty supple store and get a razor that takes replacement razor blades for about 12 dollars so you can learn to shave then you can get a strop later and use your replacement blade razor on it without hurting anything if you mess up just replace the blade good learning tool when you don't have much money you can use a coffee cup as you mug from the dollar store but you do want to get a good soup and after shave balm that will make a big difference on enjoying your beginning shaving that way you can buy your stuff a little at a time and learn at the same time then buy a nice shave ready razor and then get your hone last

Originally Posted by Bamasmelley

I have heard good things about the whippeddog deal and you can get a brush at target or a drug store for about 8 dollars that is not bad you can also go to a beauty supple store and get a razor that takes replacement razor blades for about 12 dollars so you can learn to shave then you can get a strop later and use your replacement blade razor on it without hurting anything if you mess up just replace the blade good learning tool when you don't have much money you can use a coffee cup as you mug from the dollar store but you do want to get a good soup and after shave balm that will make a big difference on enjoying your beginning shaving that way you can buy your stuff a little at a time and learn at the same time then buy a nice shave ready razor and then get your hone last

awesome idea... albeit lacking any sort of punctuation or separation. there is a "Drug Emporium" close by that has brushes and soap but I'm eyeing a soap on eBay that supposedly has an equal aroma of Old Spice.

this one at home depot seems to be the most reasonably-priced sandpaper as well as the highest-grit I could find: SandWet 600 Grit Ultra-Fine Sandpapers (5-Pack)-02343 at The Home Depot

The brush is most likely a boar hair which I still use sometime still and like I would say to look at the review section on here for a good soap their is also a good thread in this section on shaving supples that you need you can ask the poster of that thread where he got his prices from he came up with start up between 80 and 120

Wrong kind of sand paper that would be for wood I believe he was talking about automotive sand paper which would be for metal I think you can get 2000 grit from a auto paint supplier but I don't know about doing that never tried it you would need about 12000 grit to get a good finish blade for a razor