Thread: Hello from Québec

Hi guys, long time lurker here.

First of all I would like to thank you guys for putting up so much information online its really a life saver.

Got my first Straight last Christmans from my girlfriend and its a Dovo ebenholz.
Don't know where it came from but it was pre honed and shave ready and had a strop too.
My first shave with it was fantastic and I know I was hooked...
Bought some stones and a few Gold Dollar to try honing ( fiddled them with a dremel ).
And it began to get a bit out of control lol!
I got some washers and brass rods (got the right ones thanks to this site).
Now I have a lots of stones norton 4000/8000, 12 naniwa, 1k/6k from Langevin forest and a bunch of barber hones.
I made my first restoration on a Seffield Henry Barnasco. Nothing to write home about. Was hard to learn how to hone a wedge.
I am having a lot of fun learning all that stuff. Also I have to adapt my technique a bit since I have a essential tremor disorder.
Today was a good day. I bought and old Spartacus 5/8 889 Thiers Issard with a silver gladiator on the scales.
Cleaned it, honed it and it was really rewarding. I nearly forgot the aftershave so I tried the alum stone : I almost felt no burn!

Anyways thanks again guys for putting up such a great site.

Salut Tchuko, et bienvenue

Wow - it sounds like you have hit the ground running!

There are quite a few other guys from the Montréal area, and every once in a while we talk about putting together a Montréal/Ottawa area meetup, so keep an eye out here: Get Togethers and Meetings

As far as I know, there's nothing planned at the moment, but hopefully we'll get our act together one of these days.

In the meantime, good luck, and if you have any questions, please ask away.

That sounds awesome!

I will be looking foward to this.

Merci!

Welcome to SRP, it's good to have some more quebec fellow!
I hope to see your next restoration in a thread, have a good day.

Hey and welcome to the forum. Sounds like you are off to a good start and enjoying the hobby. I hope it just keeps getting better for you, did for me.

Bob