Thread: My Introduction

Originally Posted by Joseph

Yeah okay Jimmy, sounds like good advice. Are there any well known honemeisters from this forum that live in England/UK?

Joseph

Yes this gentleman here has a fine reputation. Not a bad place to buy a backup razor either.He also sells TI razors here.

Hello,
Glad to see another Englishman here. We're slowly gaining numbers!

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Yes this gentleman here has a fine reputation. Not a bad place to buy a backup razor either.He also sells TI razors here.

I will definately check that out, thankyou for the recomendation.

Originally Posted by ben.mid

Hello,
Glad to see another Englishman here. We're slowly gaining numbers!

Hello Ben! I have family living in Oxfordshire actually. Glad to be joining the SRP ranks


Joseph

Welcome to the forum. I am in the US but my mother and her family are from the UK. Mm was from Wellingborough, Noth Hampton, and I have cousins in Banbury.

Check out the WiKi for honing advice also.

Evening fella,

There ARE places in the UK where you can buy traditional shave kit, not the hardware so much but the software is out there.

Tesco stock Wilkinsons soap, palmolive cream + stick, wilkinsons brush and maybe one or two other things depending on the store. Boots do the Men-U brush, cream and some hacketts stuff - I use the preshave oil - as well as their own branded stuff. The cream is 89p and is supposed to be pretty good. Superdrug stock a few bits as well, including the ingrams cream with menthol - which I'm a fan of.

Also, hit up your local antique stores!

I would probably send the blade out my self, just because then you will know what shave ready feels like - a base line for later razors that you hone your self. Bart on here does it for like 10 Euro I think, plus postage - you couldn't get drunk on that.

Good luck from another student,
Greg

Originally Posted by paco

Check out the WiKi for honing advice also.

Thanks paco, I've found it very useful.

Originally Posted by gregs656

Also, hit up your local antique stores!

Brilliant Idea! I will definitely be doing this!

Joseph

Hi Joseph, welcome to this fine establishment.
I to am a Joseph living in the West Midlands, which uni are you at?
I must admit, I got into every aspect of straight shaving at once and made every mistake you could, but I made em quickly once only. I wouldn't reccommend you do it my way and might want to leave honing for now and focus on the shaving. You might want to see if you're shaver passes a HHT, shave ready razors generaly do though not neccessarily and even a sharp blade ain't alway a good shave. It is probably a good idea to send it out if you are unsure but it's alway worth a test shave on cheeks only. I highly reccommend Lynns DVD it's a terrific starting point and I find the wealth of knowledge on this site invaluable.
At my humble level of knowledge, if I can help I will so feel free to contact me.
Question: Have you used a straight, feather or shavette before?

Best of luck
Joey

Originally Posted by JoeyGargano

Hi Joseph, welcome to this fine establishment.
I to am a Joseph living in the West Midlands, which uni are you at?
I must admit, I got into every aspect of straight shaving at once and made every mistake you could, but I made em quickly once only. I wouldn't reccommend you do it my way and might want to leave honing for now and focus on the shaving. You might want to see if you're shaver passes a HHT, shave ready razors generaly do though not neccessarily and even a sharp blade ain't alway a good shave. It is probably a good idea to send it out if you are unsure but it's alway worth a test shave on cheeks only. I highly reccommend Lynns DVD it's a terrific starting point and I find the wealth of knowledge on this site invaluable.
At my humble level of knowledge, if I can help I will so feel free to contact me.
Question: Have you used a straight, feather or shavette before?

Best of luck
Joey

I'm at the University of Warwick (which is actually in coventry).

Nope never used one before, but it wasn't nearly shave ready when I got to it. Sharpened it up a bit on the 8k and had an okay shave off that. But I am going to send it off to get sharpened I think, just so I have a bench mark to aim for.

Where abouts are you based Joey?

All the best,
Joseph