Thread: Another Noob!

I ended up making the same mistake in buying a new razor as you did and ending up with a couple of scars on my right cheek. Then I came here and never looked back.

Welcome Zeke!

As a latter newbie (I have already earned the title of "shaver" ) I know exactly what you have to expect in the upcoming months.
Learning to lather yourself to perfection, getting that first BBS shave (without aftercleaning with a DE, or worse a GM3 ), getting to know how to strop (and getting a few knicks in it too ) and finally honing your blades to get that feeling of "I've done it myself! You know!

I am getting very close to that feeling every morning when I shave. And, man! That's a feeling to get up for in the morning!

Just follow the good advices from the honemeisters, pick out what you can use and master and learn the right way just for you!

Grtz,
Erik

I was in the same boat as Peter - Australia, so very little in the way of "on the ground" knowledge. So I taught myself. Shaving was fairly easy - stropping and honing took a bit longer...

While I wouldn't call myself a natural I think I was surprised at how easily I took to it. I imagined being nervous and uncertain, but when I put the razor to my whiskers for the first time I was remarkably calm and focussed. I even had to stop myself and take a breath I was so keen to proceed. I attribute a lot of that to just having shaved for twenty years. Bringing a razor to one's face is something one gets accustomed to. My left hand on the other hand () was never very comfortable so I and my sparse sideburns have joined the minority of one handed shavers.

X

And I'm going to continue the learning process for joining the majority as soon as my AC experiment is done.