Thread: Help finding a honemeister in Minnesota

Originally Posted by Nyanga

I'm a danish straight razor newbee who without a doubt could use a few tricks and advices on how to maintain my razor. And it just so happens that I'l be visiting Minneapolis the first week of September.

Would it be possible for me to impose on you during my stay and maybe receive a little tutoring on maintaining my razor?

Randy's a straight razor "destination" now.

I can see the new Minnesooota license plates now - "Land of 1000 lakes and Randy the honemeister"

Originally Posted by Pyment

Randy's a straight razor "destination" now.

I can see the new Minnesooota license plates now - "Land of 1000 lakes and Randy the honemeister"

hmm, I'm a little unsure as to what you mean by your post.. care to elaborate?

Originally Posted by Nyanga

hmm, I'm a little unsure as to what you mean by your post.. care to elaborate?

I'm sure he'll comment himself, he was just making a joke that Randy will now be an attraction for the State in which he lives, which has the nickname "Land of 10000 Lakes."

After all, People are traveling half way across the world to get some of his expertise.

BTW, there was a Danish bakery just a block from my parents house. I used to stop and get some fresh crullers and get a quart of milk and eat them on the way to school. Danish Bakery is good stuff. Kringle too.

Hey guys, I have this covered. He sent me an email so now it is all set up for next week.

Well guys, here is a past due update.

I met with the gentleman from Denmark. His name is Johnny Nielsen. He recently graduated with a Masters degree in Bio-medical Engineering. His masters thesis was submitted to an international competition for the best student paper in bio-medical engineering. His was selected as best from all of Europe! As a result he was invited to present his paper to the International Bio-medical engineering convention here in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I picked up Johnny at his hotel and brought him over to my place. Turbine712 ( Bill Wilcox), Dresden ( Dennis Danich) and Bruce (Bruce Aune) all stopped over and visited with him.

Johnny needed a strop in the worst way so we went to the Marvy Co. where we picked up a Illinois 361 for $47 and some other stuff. He was very plased with the low prices.
marvy is the company that makes all the Barber poles!
We showed him different razors and hones, strop, paddle strops etc. then we honed his razor for him and set him up with some abrasive pasted paddle strops and a vintage Belgian natural 2 sided hone that I had lying around.

The second time he came over Johnny and me also spent about 3 hours on the hones teaching him how to use a hone and also how to properly use the strop.

He now has a fair introduction to the world of straight razors!

I hope we hear from him again,

Here are some pics

Johnny, me, Turbine712 ( Bill Wilcox)



Dresden ( Dennis Danich) and Johnny

Awesome!!!!