Imported to Australia Shaving Supplies

I think everyone has seen the Australian shaving supplies thread and many have posted where to get supplies. I would like to start this thread for all the stuff missing or stupidly expensive in oz and where you've found it. I've only been straight shaving for about 3-4 months and haven't been able to find sprays/pastes in oz and stones are all to expensive to buy here for the most part. So I troll the net find what I need at good prices and postage I don't need to remortgage for and order from overseas. So far the only thing to go missing is the only this I brought in Australia:gaah: So this thread is to tell every one what you got and where you got it and hopefully it may save us all a couple days on google to find something affordable.

Naniwa super stones-http://www.sharpeningsupplies.com/Naniwa-C97.aspx


Arkansas stones-http://www.naturalwhetstone.com/


sprays/pastes-http://thesuperiorshave.com/Pastes.html


dmt dia sharp-http://www.carbatec.com.au/dmt-diasharp-whetstones_c7350


Hope this helps someone as it would have helped me to start out. ED:D

Thanks, another ed from Perth eh!

Here's a couple I forgot

leather and strop making suppli H Leffler & Son Pty Ltd - Catalogue es-

alumina oxide .3micron and other lap supplies( this ones in oz)- Polishing/Cleaning : Aussie Sapphire, Specialists in Lapidary Supply

Pins, scales, cheap paste and jewelers loupe - Products | Maggard Razors - Straight Razor Restoration, Custom Scales and Wet Shaving Products

Hope these help

Hi Ed. You new to straights or just the forum. Ed

New to straights, a few weeks into straight shaving.

The fun begins. Its frustrating, rewarding and highly addictive. Watch out for the addictions eg razor,hone. Im 4 months in good shaves and stropping well but started with razors and now have 9 and moved to hones and now have 2 barbers with an escher and a set of naniwa super stones on way. Not to mention money spend making strops, paddles and the paste sprays etc that go with them. Im a kid in a candy store. Broke and happy.:tu

I am possibly more cautious than you :-) but can see that it is easy to spend a wedge (no pun intended) though I do now have 3 razors, a pair of Welsh slate hones, a homemade roo strop, a pair of shaving bowls, marble shaving brush, stand, mug set, 3 other brushes, and a load of soaps, ointments etc, a couple if homemade brush stands, a mother of pearl snurdle(r) and probably some other stuff. Just need to get good at using it now :-)

Where did you get roo leather from and did you have to buy the whole hide.

Just bought a piece from eBay, came from over east. Was $22. Might be worth asking around here, I think jimbo makes his own strops, someone might have a strip kicking around for some kind of trade.

I too shall be getting into the straights as soon as my lot arrives from the classifieds here. Anticipating a lot of fun.

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I too shall be getting into the straights as soon as my lot arrives from the classifieds here. Anticipating a lot of fun.

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Fun, but be patient, am still struggling with some areas.

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Originally Posted by eddy79

Here's a couple I forgot

leather and strop making suppli H Leffler & Son Pty Ltd - Catalogue es-

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Good lateral thinking . Never considered girth straps as a linen strop.

btw, Japan Tool is actually an Australian business based in Taree. ;)

The strapping is the came as cotton fire hose/lamp wick. Am pretty sure same a a strop I saw posted by legion. Works great and cheap as. The barber I see said is same as on old school strops. For Ed Western Leathercraft sell roo. I managed to get by size and not whole hide so might be worth a try.

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Originally Posted by eddy79

The strapping is the came as cotton fire hose/lamp wick. Am pretty sure same a a strop I saw posted by legion. Works great and cheap as. The barber I see said is same as on old school strops. For Ed Western Leathercraft sell roo. I managed to get by size and not whole hide so might be worth a try.

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The roo came out nice with sanding etc lovely and soft, if I make a second strop for home will give those guys a try

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Originally Posted by edhewitt

Just bought a piece from eBay, came from over east. Was $22. Might be worth asking around here, I think jimbo makes his own strops, someone might have a strip kicking around for some kind of trade.

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There is a bloke who had a good leather supply place, just going into Freo, he is operating from home, I will have to look for his card, but he has roo hide, and bark tanned leather from NZ as well.


cheers

Heelerau

I still occasionally make a strop or two, but really I only did it as a "proof of concept" and gave them away. MickR was making some really nice ones but I'm not sure if he still does. The problem, as you guys clearly already know, is that it is difficult to just get a piece of roo leather for a strop - mostly you can only get a whole hide which makes it an expensive option for just a single strop, unless you can get a few people together to share the cost - even then, in such a large country with relatively sparse straight razor users, shipping them to each other becomes an added expense.

James.

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Originally Posted by Jimbo

I still occasionally make a strop or two, but really I only did it as a "proof of concept" and gave them away. MickR was making some really nice ones but I'm not sure if he still does. The problem, as you guys clearly already know, is that it is difficult to just get a piece of roo leather for a strop - mostly you can only get a whole hide which makes it an expensive option for just a single strop, unless you can get a few people together to share the cost - even then, in such a large country with relatively sparse straight razor users, shipping them to each other becomes an added expense.

James.

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your definately right, particularly about the cost, i spent $22 on leather, about $10 on various wet and dry, $12 for two 75mm brass hinges which I used top and bottom as hardware, they work very well but obviously there is some risk to your blade if you slip. However I am very happy with what I made but I have no shopbought strops to compareare it to.

I'm looking to get more supplies for pasting strops and have been reading up on suppliers. Kreamer pigments kept coming up so I checked it out. They have crox that is .3 micron and feox that is .09 micron. Links added below. For 100g of each and postage was $15

Chrome Oxide Green Iron Oxide Red 110 M, light