Thread: New guy saying hello and thank you.

Hi everybody. I am living in North Carolina. I originally started out in the US Army as a Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMETs work on hospital medical gear). I used the BMET skills to put myself through engineering college. Did the design engineering stint and then began climbing the corporate ladder. Production, Customer Service, Sales, and back to engineering as a manager, director, and finally Vice President. Yes I like to figure out how things work and build things too.

I’ve been consulting for several years, and a couple of years ago started doing humanitarian work. Long story but I’m running engineering teams in Cambodia, Ghana, Honduras, Nigeria, and Rwanda. We work with the governments and hospitals to set up schools and train people to take care of the medical equipment in public hospitals. Most of what gets donated in many poor countries breaks shortly after it gets there because there are no BMETs. We fix that.

I mentioned liking to make things. Metal things and electronic things primarily, I have a nice model shop but have been primarily doing management consulting recently. So I guess it was inevitable I’d find straight razors and wet shaving. I love the art of str8 razors and the wonderful shaves you can achieve. Somehow in my mind TIG welding, CNC mills, plasma cutter, and straight razor all seem to fit together . The management part of me just cringes at the Fusion razor $$$ solutions which don’t give as good a shave as the old str8 razor technology.

I’ve been reading all the great stuff on SRP. What a resource! Thank you! Straight razors have a steep learning curve. I am only about 50 shaves into this learning curve but it is starting to come together. I would not be doing anywhere close to this well without the resources you folks have put out on the Internet. Thank you very much!

Best,
Ed