Another Great Straightrazorplace Give Away!!

I though I should log on and say hello. I am new to straight razor shaving and I am still trying to figure it out. I have one really cheap Pakistani razor that i bought from ebay which basically just rips the hair out of my face. I do have another coming which is from Tuckmar, supposedly never used. Last week I bought a paddle strop from Tony Miller. That is basically all of the equipment I have apart from a cheap brush and mug that I have had for a couple years from Walgreen's. I have learned alot from reading some of the posts on this site but I only discovered it this past weekend.

Have a good day,
Jim

Well...I'm going to throw my name into the hat for this. I don't know if I'm qualified for sure since there's not exactly a definate set of requirements BUT since I only own one shavable razor that has been inexpertly honed by yours truly I would like the opportunity to give a go at a NICE razor with a GOOD edge for a change. I'm also hoping to come up with the extra dough this year to pick up a real strop since that's the last real piece of equipment I lack before making my shaving experience truly complete.

Therefore let this be my formal entry into this giveaway, and since I already HAVE a "serviceable" razor and passable technique if the judges of this giveaway feel I am already well set enough to not be involved I am cool with that too. I'll post in the sticky when it arrives too but there it is.

Oh I just saw the part about the seconds. That's very generous of you Tony! "Some" of us have to make do with the canvas from the cheap pakistani strop and a leather belt temporarily withdrawn from the wardrobe ;)

Having persuaded "her in doors" that straight razor shaving is more economical than using disposables, then having spent a few bob on a few straights, strop, hone etc..I'm sort of set up but there again I don't have my goodies yet so really I'm still razorless at this moment in time. So if I qualify for the draw it would be great.
Whatever the result it's teriffic to see such support and generosity.

Gary

Wow.

I've got one (1) Dovo straight, and (since I didn't know about out-of-the-box razors), honed it myself, er, moderately well.

You KNOW I'm a-gonna enter!

What a great place this is, because of all you generous vet'rans.

Deepweeds

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Originally Posted by wvbias

I have no plans to enter. When I receive the Case razor
that I ordered from Bill, I will be up to 5 razors, 6 counting
that Chinese razor. Not bad in less than 3 months.

This is way more razors than I ever hoped to own. Thanks
to Lynn and Bill for making this possible and all the rest
of you guys for all of your help as well.


Regards,


Terry

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Holy crap, dude. :eek: I've accumulated more than 50 in 2 months. That's how long I've been shaving with a straight. lol. Enter the drawing. I didn't get the label "honemeister" cuz I know what I'm doing. I'm just very loquacious, and ask a lot of questions.

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Originally Posted by Joe Chandler

Holy crap, dude. :eek: I've accumulated more than 50 in 2 months. That's how long I've been shaving with a straight. lol. Enter the drawing. I didn't get the label "honemeister" cuz I know what I'm doing. I'm just very loquacious, and ask a lot of questions.

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Thats a lot of razors. :D I definately want more razors, that's
for sure. I just saw where they were requesting that unless you
really need a razor to let the newbies win them one. I do want
to get a couple more, or 3 or 4...... I suppose I'll just keep an
eye on Bill's page and snipe one here and there. Besides, how
may razors does a hillbilly from WV need? :)

Terry

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Originally Posted by Joe Chandler

Holy crap, dude. :eek: I've accumulated more than 50 in 2 months. That's how long I've been shaving with a straight. lol.

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WOW! I thought I was really accumulating razors, what with me having four in hand! Of course I've only been shaving with a straight for maybe three weeks, now, and three of the four I have are ebay specials that still need work. I guess I'm not as much of a fanatic as I thought I was! :shrug:

I have conversed with couple of folks on here, and will be saving my pennies to purchase another razor or three in the coming weeks, but I also think I'm going to see if I can send at least one of mine to one of the many really knowledgeable guys on here to have them properly hone one of them up for me.

Right now, I really have one razor that is fairly shave ready, and it's and old W&B 5/8 (I finally measured it) that I honed!<!> It really shaves well, though.

Yeah...I had to slow down. I'm selling off a bunch of mine, too, and trading some. Even gave a few away. Lynn said he's got over 300, but he's been collecting waaaay longer than I have. I finally figured out what I want to collect, so most of the others are being sold. I'll look for pieces that fit what I want to collect. I managed to accumulate some pretty nice razors pretty quickly, but too much of a good thing... Anyway, I won't be entering the drawing, but having gotten a few from Lynn, I can tell you they're worth every penny if you send them to him to be honed. Told me everything I needed to know about sharp, and now I can get my razors pretty close (well, some of them anyway :D)

Well since I became aware of the possibility of straight edge shaving a total of four days ago, then I guess I qualify.

This should be really fun.