Thread: Time For Another SRP Give Away

At the moment I have only 1 of everything, being relatively new here.

My current house renovation does not allow me to buy much new stuff.
However, I plan to continue restoring razors after I finish Nelson's honing challenge, so maybe I'll be able to donate something next time.

Hi; I was one of the newbies from one of the last giveaways. I actually won a razor then, but have passed it on to a young police officer who is very interested in learning to shave with a straight. In fact he told me that he's registered here, but I haven't seen any postings from him as yet.

I don't post much either, as I don't really have any expertise to pass on. Just want to say that I do read this forum quite often and really appreciate all that I've learned here. Especially honing techniques and skin stretching. The stretching has really helped me in comfortably using a straight to shave around my beard. I stretched the skin before, but only by sticking out my chin, etc. What has really helped is using the off hand to stretch with. Seems pretty simple, but what a difference!

I'm a Newbie as well, but I will gladly pass on one of my razors.

Being a Newbie, my honing skills are not going to be the best , but in the spirit of this appeal, I am glad to share what I have.

This forum has given me a lot - it will be nice to pay something back!

PS. as a newbie, I'm also short of a decent strop if anyone can help

OK.....Here's what I'm thinking. Like last time, you guys can send all the stuff to me and then we'll have a two weekperiod for people to enter their names. Need a volunteer to keep track of the names and once gathered, a volunteer to put the names in a hat and draw them. I can ship everything out like we have done in the past.

I think we can probably start gathering names next week once the volunteers step up.

Thanks Guys,

Lynn

I'll help with the drawing.

Lynn, it makes sense to me. I'd be happy to help with the gathering of names and drawing or whatever is needed/desired. However I have a few questions..


1. By "people enter their names" I'm assuming you want those interested in the items to give submit their own names? Rather than for people to nominate others.

2. Is this going to be one drawing for everything? Or broken up?

3. Would you, and all the other extremely generous donators like people to submit their names on a wants/needs list?

My thoughts...

I see two ways to make this whole thing have the greatest impact on the largest number of members as a whole.

1. You have people submit lists of things they would like out of the raffle from greatest to least desire. Then the person takes all the names and draws one out of the hat. That person gets their top item. Next name is drawn and that person gets their most desired item that is still on the list. If no item is left that's on that person's list we could either decide skip that person (IE: Lynn submits his name for the revisor and only the revisor. It's reasonable to assume he doesn't really need/want anything else.) Or just give said person some semi random item still left in the drawing.

2. You draw a name for the top item on the list and just move down the list. This method would be simpler to employ, however there is no consideration given for actual wants/needs.


Like myself for instance... I should have two shave ready razors soon. I have a mug, an old badger brush from my grandfather, a Dovo strop, and soap's cheap. However I own no hones other than some arkansas bench stones, so the paddle strop would be handy to make into a pasted hone. The Lynn honing would make my TI razor truly shave ready and add a third razor to my lineup. But some of the other items, though I don't think I would turn any of it down (except for the Lynn video as I already own it), would be better served on other people.

With all that said, I understand work involved in organizing the request lists. I'm more than willing to volunteer my help in that. People could post here or PM me their lists of the items they want/need. And I could either forward on a compiled list to the "official drawing agent" or I could draw out names. As this whole thing is only possible because of the generosity of it's donators I will let yall decide how you want to run things. Let me know if there's anything I can do.

Kyle and Stacy, any chance of you guys getting together and figuring out how you want to take down the names? If folks want to start sending me stuff, I can catalog it for the drawing and mailing after the drawing.

Let me know folks. I would prefer that you guys do the drawing based on all the work that keeping the list will be.

Thanks,

Lynn

I'll be sending a couple of razors to ya Lynn. One is a 5/8 Wade & Butcher #1175 with "Gentleman's Razor" etched on the blade.

I'll make a post in the "Shaving Stuff for the Troops" thread (in the General forum as a sticky) on the other razor. Call it an incentive

As far as gathering names goes, I think it's a self-regulating system. Once we're ready create a sign-up thread that is open for two weeks. Let guys sign-up, close the thread, and use those names in the drawing.

Is it ok to make a suggestion?

With all the donations I'd say make "kits". If colleen is adding soap, Tony and myself adding strops, you can take a single razor, single strop and single bar of soap, until each accessory runs out. That would make a nice "kit" for a name to receive. Keep joining it together until only one type of item is available, first names drawn gets the best, on down to single items. Thus so many people would get a razor, strop and soap, maybe some would get just a razor and soap, and some either just razors or just soaps depending on quantities of each donated.

I'll be happy to help with this Lynn if you want. I'll need to drive over to drop the strops and razors off anyways.

Let me know.

Glen F

Pretty good idea FUD. If the winner of the kit already has something, perhaps they can send it to runner-up winners.