Thread: New Member Checkin In!

Originally Posted by Str8HeadShave

That means we can tell the wife all the money spent is Jimbo's fault....LOL

James'll just love that when he reads it . I thought I recognised his funny looking mug on the video link posted. Just about to go and watch it for the first time now. Geez it must be hard to be famous! I'm glad I'm not him .


Mick

I reckon I'd be scared of van goghing myself for that, and combined with my potato head I think it's hair for me.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I reckon I'd be scared of van goghing myself for that, and combined with my potato head I think it's hair for me.

One thing nice about the full hollow blade is you can hear it as it gets close

Welcome to the forum. I'm right there with ya being new to SRs. I also purchased the Bismarck for my first blade. I'd have to think head shaving is a whole new art form than face shaving with a SR. The full hollow grind does give you great feedback when it's cutting whiskers.

I use to wet shave years ago with a DE and still do from time to time. I'm enjoying the SR process. Still kinda of slow but getting very good results.

Question for you do you tape the spine when honing or stropping to preserve the goldwash?

Originally Posted by rmagnus

Welcome to the forum. I'm right there with ya being new to SRs. I also purchased the Bismarck for my first blade. I'd have to think head shaving is a whole new art form than face shaving with a SR. The full hollow grind does give you great feedback when it's cutting whiskers.

I use to wet shave years ago with a DE and still do from time to time. I'm enjoying the SR process. Still kinda of slow but getting very good results.

Question for you do you tape the spine when honing or stropping to preserve the goldwash?

Rmagnus,

I have yet to hone my Bismarck, but I do not tape the spine. I have a red latigo strop that leaves a little leather residue on the spine after stopping. I dont mind because I believe it lets me know I'm stropping properly (spine in contact with the strop at all times).

Also if and when the gold inlay gets bad, I have an excuse to purchase another razor.