Quote Originally Posted by yan3751
(In honor of my getting off my butt and actually buying one) while waiting for my razor to arrive, I thought that it might be cool to get some "first razor" stories. (I've seen some scattered here and there throughout the forums.) Where you got it, who owned it previously ... from "custom damascus" to "worn paint scraper".

-Ivan
My first one I bought in an antique store back in the 1960's. I must have lucked out, because I don't recall going through agony getting it keen, other that stropping it a lot. I used it ocassionally for a few years until I sliced the tip of my nose moving from my left side to the right side of my face one day and not paying enough attention to the altitude of the razor as it passed the fleshy part of my nose tip. That bled like heck and for two weeks I had a scab that made me cross-eyed. I laid the straight razor away for about eight years after that.