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Well after much thought and tired of putting it off I ordered a set from SRD today. Getting a Dovo 6/8 with 1/2 hollow, 3" red latigo and SRD fabric, figured the grind and blade size are the middle grounds then I'll go from there. If all goes well with this straight I'll send the Joseph Smith and son 3415 I found out to get restored and try it.
Grats! Post photos when it all arrives :). We like photos
It's always preference, but I think you'll like the 6/8. I've went over and under that and I've always seemed to come back to that size. You'll also like your strop. Enjoy them in good health, and good shaves!!
Regards,
Howard
I'll try posting pics when I get it. Might post pics of the Joseph Smith & son and the Bow razor I got at a local antique store just for fun.
yes yes yes the photos the photos. Good choices for equipment you will have no regrets. You will soon see this is going to be great!
It just keeps getting better.
Only one problem. My fiance is affraid I'll start buying multiple razors like I did bows and guns. She's already setting limits. LOL!
Hah! You will be in trouble with your fiance very soon! :)
Hey congrats! I just started with straights a couple weeks ago now and already have 3 razors and one on order lol. Good luck restraining yourself :gl: And as one noob to another I found that when i set my strop up it is much easier to strop when you attach your strop at waist level, that way you are stropping relatively parallel to the ground. I set my first one up attached at shoulder height and found it to be more difficult to use.
Strop on! :rock:
photos.
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Your sunk!! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by thumper15
The temptations, with our personality type, are insidious. Good Luck!!!
Regards,
Howard
She's running a tab. What I spend on guns, bows and razors she gets to spend on whatever she wants. It shipped this morning so I hope it gets here around wed.
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Originally Posted by thumper15
The key word is............."Fiance" not "wife"! :o
Richard
True but if she was that bad she wouldn't have made it to fiance let alone wife lol. Either way she's nothing like my ex was :banghead:
Congrads! When is the day?
R
Not sure yet. We joked that I had 10 years to make it official and it took 5 of that for me to give her a ring lol. So, I've been telling her I still have 5 more years but she's not buying that one.
Ok guys got home from my final day of therapy and there was a package waiting for me. I'll try to get pics posted tomorrow ( if I can figure it out )but here's the shave report. Had 5 days of growth waiting for this razor so I lathered up using the Bigelow and glycerin wiped off the razor rinsed it off and had at it. I didn't do like Lynn says and just do one side I did the whole thing. Right hand and left hand no real problems just too awhile figuring out the best way to manuever things so the Bigelow and glycerin was drying out so I grabbed my soap mug and relathered with it. Other than a couple small nicks which honestly are the same spots I sometimes nick while using my DE all went well. I think those were caused by just a tad too much angle on the chin. The only problem spots I really need to work on are the upper lip and chin everything else even the neck was pretty easy. As for my initial impression of the razor well honestly I can compare it since it was my first shave with a str8 but I think the razor is very good quality. I might have to get a 5/8 to see if size makes a difference and that would really only seem to matter under the nose. Strop seems like a good quality piece I stropped the razor after I shaved and am glad I got the 3" as stropping was easy. I did notice while cleaning the razor after the shave that there was just a very small burr on the edge in spots but after the stropping it's smooth all the way across the edge. Not sure how much of that accounted for some of the tug on my face but I have tough facial hair anyway. I did not strop the razor until after shaving per everyones advice. I'm going to wait till friday to shave so there is a small amount of growth and see how it shaves since it's been stropped. Hopefully I can get pics posted tomorrow.