Hello from Helsinki, Finland
Good evening everyone, after my first personal straight razor shave (apart from one time in barber shop) I am ready to greet you.
I decided over a year ago to start straight razor shaving, but delayed the investment due to lack of time for practice and accumulated a lot of information about straight razor shaving, especially during last month.
Ordered a Dovo Best Shaving Kit from SRD (which I received last week) and watched hours and hours of videos and reading about straight razor and shaving prior my first shave today, which was in my scale successfull. Managed to remove all my beard (in 3hrs) with blood on my face (at least I learned to use the stypus pencil same time :)). But the result was afterwards very clean, even though I could feel itching. Nevertheless my self-esteem was bumped after the session.
I also received Norton Waterstone 4k/8k, so this is a longer term investment for me. For you that hone your own straight razors, is finishing stone (above 8k) something you find useful when maintaining the edge?
After my life of using gillete disposable 2-edge, this was a huge leap and learnt something that I have never done before while shaving. I have to manage strech my skin more often and leather my face more often (especially if my first shave was 3hrs).
Some questions I have if this is right place to address them: for you that live in EU, where do you order your supplies for shaving (aftershave stuff, soaps or other straight razor accessories)? Im not big into paying custom taxes while ordering from US. SRD seems to be great place as they have everything, too bad they don't have EU store. Thanks to Don & Lynn for the products.