G'day my mane is Greg, I am retired and from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I came across this forum when I decided to give SR shaving ago at the tender age of 60, to follow in my fathers foot steps. Dad passed away about 10 years ago but recently Mum moved into a care facility as she is now in her mid 80's. As a result of her move we were going through some old stuff of dads and we found an old shaving brush and other shaving gear. Something struck me, I guess you would call it nostalgia because on finding the shaving gear I recalled when dad tried to teach me to shave with a SR at the age of 16. He would take great care to lather with the old shaving soap stick and shaving brush, he would walk around the house doing it for what seemed to me to be like hours but in reality would have been about 20 minutes. Being 16 I did not have the patients for all of that so I promptly went out and bought a can of shaving foam and a safety razor which means I never did use a SR! Anyway, the long and the short of this tale is that nostalgia has prompted me to try and master the art of SR shaving. I may not live long enough to be that master of the art but I will give it a fairdinkum go.

I have recently purchase my first SR and some shaving gear from SRD which I expect to arrive in the near future. In the mean time I have started watching some of Lynn's instructional video's that have been very helpful. I am quite enthusiastic about the whole SR shaving process and have just had my first SR shave, I am quite proud of myself, no cuts!

I remember someone saying it takes about 100 shaves to become proficient at SR shaving but you have to start somewhere.

Cheers all

Greg