Thread: Hi from Victoria Australia

G'day all, just joined up. Have been shaving with a DE for a couple of years now and have just managed to pick up 3 SE razors so hoping to make the progression to those soon. They will all need restoring and I don't think I trust myself to do a good enough job, so if anyone has any recommendations of restorers in oz I would be grateful. I have a blue wonder, a gotta and a bengall. If I were to only get 1 restored initially which one would you start with?
cheers from the snowman!

Snowman welcome

Hi Snowman,

welcome to SRP. You've got some good razor makes there. I regularly use several Bengalls and a Gotta; they're good razors when honed right. For honing and restorations you could do a lot worse than our very own Oz (onimaru55). He's a man who knows straights and can give good advice on restoration.

Like you, I used a DE for a couple of years before getting in to straights: it's an interesting learning curve and there's a lot of good resources and assistance available at this place.

We have a lot of fun here, so welcome aboard

Welcome to SRP! As to your question, perhaps we can advise on that if you have a picture of all three. If there is no bad pitting, especially at the edge, all three should be good shavers and I would send off the prettiest one to be restored.

G'day Snowy, I would suggest you get in contact with Oz (onimaru55) and send all three, with return postage included, to him. Let him make a call on which one gets the resto job first, and ask his advice as to the worth of the remaining two as to restoration.

Welcome to the forum mate.


Mick

Welcome to SRP

Welcome Snow only new myself but a wealth of info here to help you out happy reading etc

Thanks for the welcomes and advice guys, will get onto Oz this week

Hi and welcome. You'll find heaps of info on this site and any questions will get plenty of answers. Good luck and have fun

Originally Posted by Snowman

G'day all, just joined up. Have been shaving with a DE for a couple of years now and have just managed to pick up 3 SE razors so hoping to make the progression to those soon. They will all need restoring and I don't think I trust myself to do a good enough job, so if anyone has any recommendations of restorers in oz I would be grateful. I have a blue wonder, a gotta and a bengall. If I were to only get 1 restored initially which one would you start with?
cheers from the snowman!

G'day!

Welcome! You won't go wrong with my mate OZ! He'll treat you right and do a damn nice job for you!! PM him here:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/members/onimaru55.html

Welcome and enjoy the ride! It's a whole new/older better way to shave!!