Hi All,

Thought I'd pop by and introduce myself, I've been stalking the forums for a while now learning about Straight Razors and figured I should probably say hi. After making the switch from cartridge razors to DE because I was sick of the rubbish shave of the old mach3 and figured there must be a more enjoyable shaving experience, I thought I should try a straight razor.

Anyway, I'm a fan of things from yesteryear, so after a long time perusing through not so great razors on eBay, I finally ended up with 2 razors which had blades in good nick. Anyway, last night I had a bit of time free so thought I'd have a crack at my first straight shave. The end result, I walked out to the shed and got a better shave from a bit of rusty mild steel that I'd had left over from some bodywork on the car.... Crickey, I dunno what some people call "shave ready", lol, but those two razors were definitely NOT shave ready. I finished the shave with my DE because all the straights would do was grab hairs and not cut (they feel sharp-ish to the touch but after shaving with them I'm convinced it's not sharp enough). To add to that, I did stop after a couple of strokes and go back through my bookmarked pages to make sure I wasn't doing something completely wrong and am convinced that while my technique is not perfect, it shouldn't be causing the tugging, rather than cutting action of the razor.

Anyway, so after being a bit annoyed last night and searching through a lot of info on whetstones, I've ordered a 4000/8000 Norton and am going to give them a tickle up and see how she goes after that.

Apologies for the long into

Cheers,

Rob