Thread: Asheville NC meetup ; April 26-27th

Now that I'm awake enough I want to thank all the folks who made this happen. Without their hard work and long hours of planning and executing, this meet up would never have happened. Thank you to:

Kevin (hidestoart) for planning, organizing, and setting up the gathering. He also provided strops, material, and equipment for others to use/keep.

Rick (rickboone) for doing a great job coordinating with vendors and gathering door prizes and give a ways.

Randy (Randydance) for helping with advertizing and for teaching honing and for taking time to talk and give one on one sessions. Randy was also the photographer/videographer of the group.

Ron (Utopian) for teaching honing and sharing his wealth of knowledge. Ron was also teaching how to fix or adjust flaws in razors to where they can be honed properly. If you could have seen his table, he must have had 30 stones of all times out there and that was just a hand full of what he brought to the meeting. He even brought in a monitor and hooked it up to his microscope so everyone could see what he was looking at and talking about.

Joe (Nipper) for managing the attendee roster, sign in, name tags and for sharing his knowledge with folks.

Aaron (ScoutHikerDad) for teaching and giving one one one lessons on stropping.

Christopher (C.J.bianco) for teaching about barber hones, how to use them and how to pick them.

Richard (Stropper) for teaching and demonstrating how to repair/re pinning razors and for working on and fixing other peoples razors for them.

Lynn for teaching honing styles and for helping and giving one on one training on honing. Oh and giving shaving lessons too!


Other folks who jumped in and helped and shared information include:

Ray (Walleyeman) for helping with setting up and take down. AND for giving away some of his drop dead beautiful brushes.

Charlie (Spazola) for jumping in and helping with basic and advanced razor making.

Pat (pfries) for jumping in and helping us newbies.

Simon (coully) for jumping in and helping with honing and shaving skills. I guess men do go to the bathroom in pairs!

James (Mephisto) for helping people to use hones.

And Brian (ShavingSnop). Brian came out from TN to learn and at the end of the meet up on Sunday, jumped in and helped take down the set up and finished out sweeping and mopping the floor before we all left. Thank you for doing that and helping out. It was really appreciated.

I hope I haven't left anyone out. There were so many people showing and sharing it was hard to keep up. If I left you out, I am truly sorry.

Oh, and the learning didn't stop when everyone left for the day either. Many folks met up afterwards at restaurants or hotel rooms to talk more about shaving and to get more practice time on hones as well. I'm already looking forward to the next meet up.