Thread: Anything you would change about your learning experience?

I wouldn't change a thing. The way you learn is the way you learn. If that takes making mistakes then so be it. Ok scratch that the one thing I would change is that I would have done more research on what razor to buy as my first. I just looked through Amazon and picked one out randomly. As far as I knew a razor was a razor. I completely lucked out and picked a Dovo but I had never heard anything about it. The second razor I found I didn't have so much luck. I clicked the first site that came up when I googled straight razors and bought a razor from there that was complete garbage, and worse yet the site would not even return my emails. Thats when I stumbled across this site and the resources it offers.

I would have not been so hard headed and sought out advice much earlier on. This hobby has humbled me repeatedly and I've learned some things about myself on the way. I'm a hardheaded stubborn son of a gun. I've actually gotten better at keeping that under control because of straight razors and I intend to keep mellowing out as I grow with this art form.

I wouldn't change anything in my beautiful learning trip, though I made many mistakes.
Passionating experience in the joy and in the pain.

Yes, I would change just about everything!

Straight razor shaving and maintaining is said to be mysterious and almost esoteric while it is not. If I had had someone proficient at my disposal, there would have been no such thing as a learning curve. But because I didn't I had to figure out everything myself by trial and error. PITA...

Of course I enjoyed the smallest of gain/improvement. But just because I had so many failures...

Cheers

I would have met with Lynn Abrams when he invited me.

When I learned, none of these sites existed. The old yahoo groups site was there but I was unaware. So I learned everything myself the hard way and the wrong way. Some of this stuff I've been doing long enough that the wrong way has been altered into the way that works for me. I guess I should have done more research at the time. Oh well.