HOW DID SRP START? I want to know the history of it all!!

Hello again,

I've been searching and searching for information on how this site came to be. Who started it, where, why, how, and who were the first to really rediscover the ART? I'm very curious!

One more quesition if that lots was not enough
does anyone know any links or sites for videos that show SR leg shaving? I have watched load of the face shaving ones, but would absolutely LOVE to see a leg shaving one!
(Been getting ready watching and reading because I have some shaving gear on its way!!yey. )

Hope your still smiling from your last shave and can't wait to join you!


:yPearl

The person you are looking for is Lynn. He started all this and is the driving force that keeps pushing for the whole world to use straights...LOL

OK briefly, this site came about after Al gore invented the INTERNET. before that it was and still is a yahoo user group which according to my email still gets a fair amount of interest.

Lynn Abrams is the man responsible for the yahoo group and this Site. he was the original owner and is now in partnership with Don Addlerbrook (sp?) here and at www.straightrazordesign.com they through generosity and perseverance have made this site the open and "civilized" site you see now.

As for the lost art of straight razor shaving, it really was not lost just hidden from view... i have used a straight razor since the 1970's as my father and his father and on back did. however the owners of the site reside inthe capital of american straight shaving.... medina, ohio

Lynn, though, brought it into the open and onto the net... if memory serves all the other wet shaving groups are offshoots of here and the yahoo group....

slap me if i am wrong...


they need to suck it up and write a decent history of the place.

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Originally Posted by Pearl Razor

Hello again,


One more quesition if that lots was not enough
does anyone know any links or sites for videos that show SR leg shaving? I have watched load of the face shaving ones, but would absolutely LOVE to see a leg shaving one!



:yPearl

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Hi Pearl, welcome to the world of straight shaving. To answer your first question, CoachMike is correct, Lynn Abrams is the driving force behind Straight Razor Place and keeping Straight Razor shaving alive.

In answer to your second question, I'm not sure of any videos of leg shaving with a straight, but if I know some of these guys on here, they also would love to see one as well. :w

Again, Welcome to the group.
Tony
aka "Freebird"

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Originally Posted by Pearl Razor

does anyone know any links or sites for videos that show SR leg shaving? I have watched load of the face shaving ones, but would absolutely LOVE to see a leg shaving one!

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I'm planning on making one... just keep reminding me or I'll forget! :)

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Originally Posted by LilithParker

I'm planning on making one... just keep reminding me or I'll forget! :)

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THAT WOULD BE SUPER!! I WOULD LOVE THAT, THANKS LILITH!!

Pearl :y

That would be so cool! Thank you for stepping up to the plate Lilith.:D

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Originally Posted by LilithParker

I'm planning on making one... just keep reminding me or I'll forget! :)

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is that before or after the PCR video you are planning on making?:D

and back on the original topic... After the ice age, when they discovered and thawed Lynn out, he was appauled to see how backwards modern man had become.
Pulling their facial hair out with strange buzzing plastic boxes, or shaving with cheaply made wire thin blades set in pink colored plastic...
Fortunately he was from a more civilized age, and he knew the solution.:D

and as Syslight said thanks to Al Gore he had a way to spread the good word.:wIt's all true, I swear it...:w




Seriously, Syslight's version is what I understand to be true, many of us would not be using straights, or would still be struggling if it weren't for the hard work of Mr. Lynn Abrams.:bow

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

is that before or after the PCR video you are planning on making?:D

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Naughty naughty!!! :eek:

But thanks for the other erhm confusing info....

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

is that before or after the PCR video you are planning on making?:D

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LOL! Not a chance. :P

The original yahoo group is here straightrazorplace : Straight Razor Place
It looks like Lynn posted back in late 2000, so I'm guessing that's about when it started :shrug:

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12:56 am

could be worse...
ever seen what a bird goes through to get a good shave???


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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

could be worse...
ever seen what a bird goes through to get a good shave???


http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...birdkiller.gif

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Is that called as a "ball" or "strike"? Egads!

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Originally Posted by Seraphim

Is that called as a "ball" or "strike"? Egads!

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That's called a fowl :D

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Originally Posted by hoglahoo

That's called a fowl :D

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:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao. Thats too funny.
BTW, as it was explained to me, God created the heavans and the earth and everybody thought he was resting on the 7th day, actually he was surfing SRP and forgot about the time.

To my knowledge SRP wasn't the very start of Straight Razor Shaving: The Resurrection. It was more like the first place to build a community of straight shavers and build a collective knowledge. SRP was the last place I looked when learning about straight shaving. Straight shaving was never completely lost, so it wasn't rediscovered or anything.

Also, sorry to burst people's bubbles, but Al Gore did not invent the internet or even the world wide web :P Internet, as a global network, was available in the 80's. The idea of a global network started in the 70's. There were actually already earlier versions of networks in the 60's in labs at MIT. Jumping back up to the 90's, the internet was popularized with the invention of the world wide web, credited to Sir Tim Berners-Lee (he still maintains the specifications at w3c). As for the 2000's, not quite sure what the major landmark is/will be. Currently the U.S. government is hoping to replace 56k with broadband, making it freely available to everyone, fundings wouldn't come from taxes but through ads. I think the more likely project to grab the 2000 landmark is something called the Grid. The Grid is sort of like internet 2.0. It'll offer speeds 10,000x faster than what we get now, and it's expected to be released, what for it...

... this summer! And with that, there will be a boom in storage devices! My 2 TB then, will look as dinky as 2 MB looks like to us now. And imagine Esther Dyson's prediction come true. Never have to pay for music, movies, or software ever again! It will become too cheap and easy to copy and distribute.

Imagine if SRP was put on the Grid! New communication mediums we currently aren't even able to fathom right now making it easier to learn how to shave with a straight razor! Instead of making videos and writing articles/manuals on how to do stuff, we would make holographic images containing digital models of ourselves and they could pretty much just go to your places and not only show us how to shave, but make corrections as you do your first shave, and giving us some pointers! And this will be available to us in what? 2-5 years?!?!?! Crazy how fast technology progresses...

The Al gore invented the internet thing was a joke...
and the question wasn't how straight razor shaving started, but how SRP got started... I think you took my parody a little too seriously.

I'm also reasonably certain Lynn was never frozen in ice.";"

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Originally Posted by Berticus

Also, sorry to burst people's bubbles, but Al Gore did not invent the internet or even the world wide web :P Internet, as a global network, was available in the 80's. The idea of a global network started in the 70's. There were actually already earlier versions of networks in the 60's in labs at MIT. Jumping back up to the 90's, the internet was popularized with the invention of the world wide web, credited to Sir Tim Berners-Lee (he still maintains the specifications at w3c).

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Just to clarify the clarification; He never claimed he invented it, only that he pushed forward legislation to help it to grow to where it is today. Snopes is great.

But it's still a funny line to throw out. or if I wanted to be bipartisan I could say that president elect Gore invented the internet.

anyhow, sorry :OT

:roflmao:y:bow:tu

By the way, mike, I think you're barking up the wrong tree with lillith. I'm surprised Viola hasn't already posted a SR leg-shaving video but more to the point, I'm thoroughly impressed that she hasn't shot a PCR video and posted it on ebay. And people say the Ducks are going for unreal prices...:w Or lillith, if you're feeling enterprising, there's always instructional videos. Seems to work for the other aspects of SRP. Sorry this whole post was WAY off topic, but the "reasonably certain Lynn was never frozen in ice" caused too much laughter to not warrant a comment. Plus I don't have any more to add to what's been said other than I would be having a terrible time with straight shaving if it weren't for this place.

Have fun ladies and welcome, Pearl

Adam

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

The Al gore invented the internet thing was a joke...
and the question wasn't how straight razor shaving started, but how SRP got started... I think you took my parody a little too seriously.

I'm also reasonably certain Lynn was never frozen in ice.";"

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?????
very confused!

So.......

I got out of the Army in 1973 and my Grandpa takes me out for a straight razor shave. Being only 21, I had a full beard, but not as thick as today. The shave was soooooo coooooool. Way baby butt smooth and it lasted for two days. Needless to say, I bought an old Chicago Cutlery razor within a week.

I continued to shave with that razor on and off for the next 25 years and whenever it got dull, I would take it to a cutlery shop for sharpening. Sometimes it came back shavable and sometimes not.

In the late 80's, I made up my mind to only shave with a straight and I was determined to learn how to sharpen myself so I went to the internet for help. Over the course of a year I searched and at best was only able to find a question here and there like on Blade Forums. There really was virtually no information available and certainly no forum anywhere. I was able to hook up with a man named Don Walters out of AZ and he spent hours with me on the phone answering every pestering question I had and took an enormous amount of patience with me to teach me how to hone a razor. When he honed up the old Chicago Cutlery, I had a standard for life. Around this time, I also met John West who had been collecting straight razors for over 30 years. John was also very open and patient with me teaching me all about the history of straight razors and the manufacturers. At the time, he had over 3,000 razors.

Then in Nov, 2000 I decided I would start a forum on the internet dedicated to preserving the art of Straight Razor Shaving, Honing, Collecting and anything that had to do with a straight razor. I decided to call it The Straight Razor Place and it was the very first internet facility of any kind dedicated to straight razors. I even asked my kids to join so that we would have a few members to start. Ebay back then used to post email addresses and I went to the Straight Razor Section and invited all buyers and sellers with an email to join. I also started to find information here and there and added it to the forum. It grew slowly at first, but then really took off. We have always had mostly great members who have contributed and made this a community that I am very proud to associate with.

Well once I learned how to hone, I started sharpening hundreds of razors for people for free and giving away straight razors to people who couldn't afford them. I was buying a ton off ebay in those days as well as scouring the antique shops. I wanted to hone every possible razor every made and the quest continues and then some.......:D

The orginal SRP on yahoo was the first of it's kind and every other straight razor forum basically was born from it. Most of the information availble on the other forums came from what SRP accumulated. Many of the founders of the other forums also got their starts on SRP.

Now after honing somewhere around 12,000 razors and still learning as well as seeing all the information out there, other forums, the new members and lurkers growing every day, the custom razors available, women participating, the growing number of stores to service our needs and the absolute brilliance of many of the new members bring in restoration, handle making, honing, razor making, soap making and sharing this wonderful art, I can say "Mission Accomplished". Just the knowledge of soaps, cremes, aftershave balms and lotions, brushes, strops and all the accessories of our art is mind boggling. You folks rock!!!!!

I am very grateful and have always been to be a part of a population such as this. Our members show compassion and caring for all who enter our doors and for that I say thanks to you all. We have some of the best people I have ever met who hang out within our doors.

I am also a strong proponent of all the forums getting along. We have a common passion and it should be shared with goodness and not with hatred, jealousy or self display.

I hope to continue to learn from you for many years to come.

Sorry for the long post, but I hope this answers your questions.

Have fun,

Lynn

It was spam, Pearl. :)

Thank you Lynn for sharing your personal history as well as how you founded SRP.
Your hard work and dedication has paid off for so many of us members as well as vendors, and lurkers.:)
A few of us have heard bits and pieces of how SRP started, a few more actually know, and were there at the beginning. but to get the full story, and history of SRP is nice.
I think it shows us how much trouble we were saved when we started using straight.

Thanks Lynn. The forum you created and the mammoth repository of straight razor information it holds truly does save each and every one of us years of time in becoming proficient at shaving and honing. I'm very thankful to be a member of this community.

Chris L

well that was exactly what I wanted to know, so thank you VERY much Lynn!!
I am very honoured you took the time to reply to this quiery, as I feel very satisfied now to have the knowledge on how and when this wonderful site got started!
Thanks so very much,
May you blessings come back five fold.

Pearl

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Thankyou very much Lynn. It's good to be part of this wonderful place & all the knowledge & experience that has accumulated from your brave endeavour. All of us are in your debt.