Thread: New to Straight Razor shaving

JTmke
I am in the same boat. My shave cabinet takes up more room than my wifes makeup drawer these days and yet I still keep buying different soaps and aftershaves to try. It does not take long to get addicted and also develop RAD!

Taj,

Everything has pretty much been covered, so I'll just say Welcome to the Forum!

I lived in Palmer for 14 years and retired in 97 and moved back to Okla to help care for my parents. I miss Alaska, but not the dark or the snow. I told them I was going down to the lower 48 and was going to put a snow shovel over my shoulder and start walking south. When someone ask me what that was on my shoulder, that's where I was going to live!

Enjoy the forum!!

Best Regards,

Howard

I only shave with one razor..........................................at a time.

All of you are sounding like a great group of people! Love the comments and thanks for advice! looking forward to some great advice and tips on getting started!!

Originally Posted by AKShaver

All of you are sounding like a great group of people! Love the comments and thanks for advice! looking forward to some great advice and tips on getting started!!

Welcome!

You will find members here of all different backgrounds, ages and occupations from all corners of the world and all with a quest for more knowledge about using and maintaining a straight razor!

Patience is the KEY WORD here! I can't stress enough that if you can't be patient then you will fail and none of us here want to see that happen. Take your time! I can't imagine you entering the Boston Marathon if you hadn't learned to crawl yet. That might be an extreme example but I see newbies do just that! They get a professionally honed razor and don't get a good shave, so instead of trying to learn that it was probably the shaving angle or that they had inadvertently turned the edge with improper stropping--they go out and spend a couple of hundred on hones and then they get worse shaves. And they blame it on the razor!

Take your time and you will be fine.

You will note that there are many 'ADS' in this world of shaving and not in the 'Advertising way' but RAD 'Razor Acquisition Disorder--SAD 'Strop Acquisition Disorder--HAD 'Hone Acquisition Disorder etc.

If you can keep those under control in the long run this age old art is very economical. Most of my razors were gifts, I have a simple honing set up, I have a couple of strops but I've managed to keep the ADS at bay.

Welcome to a Whole New World, and a Better One At That

Cudarunner, you forgot to mention the soap ah yes soap and soap and cream and soap!!!!!!!! and oil and soap.

Originally Posted by EdwinM

Cudarunner, you forgot to mention the soap ah yes soap and soap and cream and soap!!!!!!!! and oil and soap.

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I did say 'etc'