Thread: Hello from Portland

Welcome athair from a SRP member in Forest Grove. There are a lot of members in this neck of the woods. I suggest that you get together with a mentor to make sure your razor is properly honed and have a one on one with him to answer many of your questions with out the delay of posting back and forth. One thing he, and I and a lot of members will say, is do not, repeat, do not try to hone your own at this time till you can manage a series of proper technique shaves. My mentor is pinklather, he lives in Scapoose, not that far. Send him a PM about getting together with him. He will, time permitting be more than happy to do a one on one. If you do arrange a meeting and transportation is a problem (don't know if you are a student or what on a limited budget) you can take Max out to Hillsboro and I'll take you the rest of the way. I always enjoy meeting with him.

Razorfeld

Portland is awesome like that. But as a network engineer I don't aspire to be a baker, or cut my own hair.

Razorfeld, Wow, that's about the friendliest response I've gotten onine, thank you. I am not a student and transport wouldn't be the problem there but time would and money always is. I've got two young kids and a more than full time job. I got up yesterday at 5am just to have the uninterrupted time for my first straight shave. Insomnia sucks, but had a benefit for once. I live on the other side of Portland near 205 so that would be a long drive, but I'll keep this in mind though.

Welcome to the forum!

Lots of great people here, lots of info, pretty much can answer any question you can think of, probably even the, "meaning of life".

It's a great journey - enjoy!

athair, my pleasure. Any question or advise I can give you is your for the taking. I'm the odd ball in the forum, joined last July at age 80 and having the time of my life (and feeling younger for it) getting to know and make friends with a number of people on three continents and four countries. We range from super serious to a bunch of complete wags (I'm nearer to the later). A few more Portland area people join up and we could have a Portland meet in addition to the regional meet.

I've read a lot of posts suggestion XTG be from ear to chin (assuming downward hair growth), why so consistently toward chin?

Hi and welcome. There are plenty of shaving kids on YouTube that explain heaps. Most things like direction are general rules of thumb but it is really about what the hair on your face grows like. For me on one side ear to chin is wtg on the other is atg. That said its likely because its easier and you can see what your doing