Thread: Getting started (again)

I've had a little stint in SR before, but never really got into it. Mostly because I had inadequate skills at the time to get my razors in perfect shaving state.
Back a few years ago I only had a coticule, and tried honing on that alone, but with the slurry factor as an inexperienced honer/shaver I couldn't get the results I was hoping for.
I bought a shave read TI Grelot and got amazing shaves. I had one Henckels that I honed on a BBW that gave me an amazing shaving edge and subsequent amazing shaves.
I didn't get more into it as my personal life wouldn't allow me the time needed to put it to learn the honing and buy more gear to get things done the way I wanted to.

So I started DE shaving, but I never have been truly satisfied with the DE blades out there, I got good shaves, but I surely was missing something.
After 4 years of DE shaving and trying different blades, I had a really crappy shave from a blade the other day and decided, this is it. I'm going back to SR shaving, damn all this DE garbage (exaggeration).

So first thing I did was to look up Lynn's honing videos. And because of the ones I saw I placed an order for the Naniwa Superstones, the 1K, 5K, 8K and 12K.
So now I'm waiting for my order to arrive and hopefully will receive the stones next week. With these different grits, I hope I will feel more in control of my honing progression and hopefully get good results.

I've inherited razors from my ancestors and from friends of my grandparents and it felt like such a waste to not use them.

The razors I have include a Bartmann, a Gondola, a Hans Reif, 2 Henckels, TI Grelot a natural combo coticule.
I have an Old Traditional strop with Scrupleworks linen.

So I'm set on quality gear me thinks. Now I gotta refine my honing, stropping and shaving technique and everything will be well.


Cheers!

Sounds like you are well sorted. Feel the same about the DE shaves myself, could be from lack of practise. You are lucky to have some heirloom razors, wish I did.

Cheers, Tristan. Welcome to Straight Razor Place!

welcome! if you can find someone to help you learn to hone (wish i could) it will speed up the learning. Have fun!

Welcome to the SRP Forum!

Here is a link that will help you find other SRP members in your area, just insert your location and hit search now. Note that the user name listing in red is a mentor, if you should need any personal help.

Here is a link to the SRP Library. This will help you with pretty much anything relating to shaving with a straight razor.

Welcome to the world of straight razor shaving!

Thanks for the warm welcome, greatly appreciated!

Welcome to the forum. Any chance of picture of those razors. Heirloom razors are the best for keeping and shaving but not really the best for learning on because we tend to mess things up a little in the beginning.I have an heirloom Henckels as well. Best razor ever.

Hi & welcome back to SRP. I know you have been here before so you know what to do. You know how to use a computer I'm sure so click on the links above & they will direct you to the appropriate areas. When you click "Forum" you will see more options on the left side of the page. You can click on the main SRP logo on the top left & it will take you to the main page including the straight razor database & more on the left side. It doesn't take rocket science to get around on here. You will soon find your way around & you can even select the advanced search if you are looking for something specific. There is a wealth of information on here to learn. If you are going to use a straight, you will most importantly need to learn how to strop a razor. You can practice with a butter knife so that you don't cut a good strop with a razor if you accidentally go the wrong way which many of us have done when learning. All you have to do is to sand it out or glue it back down with some CA (superglue) or some rubber cement. You can learn to strop once you go to the Library here. You can actually hone from a coticule alone. I think Lynn has a video on that but if not, gssixgun does. Here's a link to his Youtube video's:

https://www.youtube.com/user/gssixgun/videos

If you haven't seen all of Lynn's Youtube video's just let me know & I'll send you a link to them but since you have already seen some, you can subscribe totem & get them all.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on the forum or send me a pm & i will be more than happy to help you out.
God luck!

Welcome, you certainly are lucking to have the family razors. My grandfather's razors are all long gone. Enjoy.

Welcome to SRP.