Hi from China!

Hey there everyone. My name is Josh and I live in China with my family (wife and 6 kids ranging from 8.5 down to 5 months - yes, life is crazy!). I bought my first SR startup kit back in '06. Got a DOVO razor with a strop and some other goodies. Because of how crazy things were with traveling and changing lots of diapers I just didn't have the time or energy to enjoy SR shaving. A few months ago I got the urge again! I started shaving again and in preparation for going back to the States for a couple weeks I got a nice badger hair brush and some new soap. While poking around on a few sites I started seeing people talk about restoring old razors. I put out an e-mail to some friends and was able to get 5 razors. While I was in the States I found 3 more razors at antique shops. Now I have 8 old razors and almost all the tools I need to start restoring them. I'm sure I'm going to have a ton of questions along the way and I look forward to interacting with you all. God bless!

Welcome, Josh! And nice to hear your story :) You'll find most of your questions have already been asked and listed here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html. Good luck and don't forget to take many (before and after) pictures!

Laurens, thanks for that link. Wow, looks like I've got a lot of reading to do! And yeah, I'll be sure to take lots of pictures!

Welcome and best of luck in your choice to restore old razors! Putting more razors back in circulation is always a good thing. Take care.