Thread: new guy from ND

Hello all ! Did my first straight shave yesterday. Over did what I had planned on trying and gave myself one small nick. I tried using a straight razor over thirty years ago when I ran out of blades and my hairdresser (ex) wife let me use her straight razor. As I was in a big hurry for my national guard meeting, and kinda shakey, and hungover at the time it didn't end well. They gave me a OK at least you tried at inspection Lol.
So now I have a new dovo in hand from SRD and 5-6 ebay purchases on the way. So like most I proceeded to nick up my brand new strop! (And probably dulled my new razor in the process) I also ended up with another strop from a razor I bought on eBay. (Have Lynn's DVD and watched it. And a bunch of tube videos) so that's my story so far.

welcome to the forums. There is a lot of help to be found here. Give it some time and you will be getting some pretty great shaves.

Hi, and welcome to SRP. Check out the forum's library there is alot of good info there. Take it slow and enjoy the journey!!!

Hi and welcome. Any questions feel free to ask.

nodakjohns,

Sounds like you've done your homework - the videos are a great learning tool. I find myself going back and re-watching them periodically as a bit of a gut-check and/or reminder.

I started off with an Illinois Strop because they're not very expensive, and I presumed I'd kill it while learning. Once I got my stropping technique under better control, I moved on to a Mountain Mike's Strop, which I still consistently use. Lately, I've added an SRD strop into my rotation, and the more I use it, the more it's becoming my go-to strop - but, I do rotate it with my Mountain Mike's.

Good luck on your journey - it took me a short while to come up to speed, but at this point I'll never go to back to a cartridge razor.

Thanks guys. I have a jemico smaller strop that came with an eBay purchase and my new red latigo 2 inch from srd (the one I'm butchering currently) and I just ordered one from star shaving supplys a 3 inch big daddy. So between them hopefully I can learn to strop. As for the shaving part that's the fun part. Got to much invested to ever quit now ! Im pretty persistent so I will succeed eventually.

Welcome!

You made me laugh with your NG inspection story.

Hope this "pass" at shaving continues to be better than that trial run!

Well I have done 3 shaves so far. About that many nicks per shave, but I'm learning !

Welcome to the forum. 3 nicks per shave means probably you need to slow down.