Thread: One on one help is the best

I was so lucky to meet an SRP member from my home town. Mrsell63 approached me after reading one of my posts. After a few messages he so kindly came to my barbershop and gave me some honing tips and let me see some different stones, strops and razors. It was amazing how much I picked up in a few hours. I encourage all the beginners to look for a local veteran and I encourage all you hone experts to to reach out to a near by beginner. The one on one experience can't be beat.

Yep, face to face is the best teacher of all. You had a good teacher & learned more in those few hours than you would have in months of reading with trial and error.

Very Nice !!!!

Kudos Jerry

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Very Nice !!!!

Kudos Jerry

Wish I lived in Sandpoint, Idaho... would have made the last 6 weeks go much faster!

-john

Since I started this thread Jerry (mrsell63) and I have been meeting once and sometimes twice every month. He's been a tremendous help. We touch base on all types of subjects pertaining to razors and especially honing/stropping. Today we reviewed the Pyramid Method and successfully honed my Otto From Red Head using it. I also had a chance to use the oh so sweet Suehiro Gokumyo finisher. On top of all that Jerry gave me a demonstration on pinning. I went home with another load of know-how. We both went home with smooth shaves!

Yes, that's fat old me in the second photo. Josh is an outstanding student. He was able to achieve a very nice 8k shave at the end of only our second session together which was only 2 or 3 months ago. He is now exploring finishers like the Zulu and Gokumyo 20k. I shaved with a razor he honed today. Very nice. Very close shave.