Thread: Gday from Western Australia

Gday another straight shaver prospect from Oz!
Been reading this forum like crazy on last couple of weeks and have found it immensely useful. Tried my first straight shave today and found it comparable to a cheap disposable single blade. Although I suspect this may be as my beginner set from shave hut isn't shave ready.
Anyhow have purchased a sight unseen from Larry (whipped dog) and 12k hone so hopefully his shave ready will give me something to compare to get the muhle up to scratch. Cheers for stopping by
Hayzee

Hello, welcome to srp. i am pretty sure muhle straight razors are on the brands to avoid list, i would try and get a refund. do you know what your new razor is going to be yet?

Hi how are you,how far north? I live in Perth and work just outside Dampier.
Welcome by the way.
All the best Ed

Welcome Hayzee
Can't go wrong here I think
From an ex gropper now ind Qld
Regards D

Welcome to the forum hayzee.


Mick

Pretty close to Dampier mate, live in town at Karratha. Nice to know not the only one up here going backwards in time with my shaving routine!
And thanks for the advice Bombay but its bit late as had my first shave with it this morning. Managed to get most areas but left upper lip and a lot of the neck for the gillette fusion. Did look for the muhle on the things to avoid and srp approved lists but couldn't find it. Only info i had was manufactured in Germany (good) and cheaper version of Dovo from google. That said i have the day off today so although i couldnt get the HHT this morn after stropping repeatedly. I just gave it a fair crack with bit more pressure on the linen and leather and it has passed on 2/3ds of the blade. Will wait on the cheaper shave ready blade from Larry to compare before i go crazy honing it though.

ah my mistake, if its made by dovo it will probably be fine. i wouldnt bother at all with the hht, i would use the unseen razor solitary for a few weeks, so you can nail the basics and using the one razor removes a lot of variables.

Dont quote me on that, just what I have picked up on a google search from a forum. I mostly went with the fact it was manufactured in Solingen Germany and hoped that included the blade not just the scales. Am expecting the shave ready blade from Larry in a week so for now was going to practise stropping and the basics with this one and then use it as a guinea pig to learn honing to get my skills up to scratch while still having a proffesionally honed razor.
One question, it came with a Cyril Walter strop with linen backing, i have worn this in partially as suggested in the wiki with condition and a bottle. I get very little resistance from the linen but the leather feels good (in my 1 hours experience), is this normal for the linen?

yes thats normal, the linen is really to dry the blade and the leather is to smooth the edge

Cheers mate, i thought the linen was for a more aggressive strop. Should i chase up a canvas strop to use aswell then?