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...excellent!
Quite an experience. You kinda lose yourself in the process. Zen. I don't know if others feel the timelessness of it, but I certainly did. I'm finally looking forward to shaving again. I got my razor honed by Oz in Sydney and he gave me some good tips and did a great job! Thanks to everyone in the SRP for making me feel more than welcome!
This is my Dovo Forestal:
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very nice.
Michael
Glad it went well for you, Cracker.
Now you understand what we are on about here - the relaxation and Zen of the shaving experience.
I wish you many more.
Good on ya Steve ! Glad it went well for you. Were you tempted to clear the goatee :p :D
I feel most "in the moment" when the Styptic first contacts a cut.
If you can believe it.............IT just keeps getting better! Congratulations
G'day Steve, welcome aboard. Glad to here your first experience was a good one.
Mick
Thanks Oz. I didn't clear the goatee. I wanted to get good with the easy bits first! I will likely keep the goatee but narrow it a bit! Fancy talking 'hair' with blokes :) Thanks for the hone btw.
All good mate & you'd be surprised at some of the things that get discussed here :p
Awesome! I'm looking forward to my Dovo that's on its way to me right now. I had a not so pleasant experience with the cheap-o no-name razor I bought. So I thought that the poor quality of the shave was largely due to the poor blade, as well as my lack of experience. Can't wait for the mailman this week! haha.
Nice to hear the good stories..
I have heard previous rumors that Oz cat knows his way around a hone :p
Funny you should specifically mention Zen. Like many straight razor shavers, my friends and coworkers are convinced I've gone completely around the bend, especially when I mention the Zen quality of straight shaving. Certainly there are a couple dozen things to think about when shaving with a straight but my best shaves always seem to result in being aware of all of those things (stropping, blade angle, pressure, grain of the whiskers etc.) while simulataneously just relaxing and letting the shave be what it is. Rest assured you'll only become more adicted with practice. Cheers and good shaving! Your handle, Cracker, is rather strange for an Aussie, the term is used here for natives of Florida and Georgia. Supposedly the term goes back to the days of open range cattle grazing when (in the absence of fences) cattle were contained in a specific area by men on horseback with whips cracking (i.e. Crackers)
Hi. Everything you say sounds right about the process being "intricately simple and simply intricate"
By the way, my handle is cracker because I am a Chiropractor...I can hear the penny drop from here!!!
I'm sure it will be fine! However all blades vary it seems, even when coming out of the same factory! Get it looked at and honed as soon as you get it in the post.
