New Guy from Sunny Southern California

Greetings everyone. My name is Steve and I am an al...... Oop's...wrong group!

Hi there everyone my name is Steve and I am from southern California. I have been a wet shaver for several years and a member of some of the other forums related to DE/SE razor shaving. As with most guys I am gung ho for a few months then I find another hobby to chase, and annoy wife, before coming back to this wonderful pastime!


I decided this foray into shaving needed to add straight razors so here I am! I have a Double Duck Gold Edge awaiting honing and minor restoration and a Filarmonica 14 that as far as I can tell only needs some honing and stropping. The Filly was a gift from one of the civilians at my agency.

I know threads are worthless without photos so I will attach those here:
DD was a $20.00 garage sale find
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...f/P6240869.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...f/S1050001.jpg


Thank you in advance for your tips and knowledge and friendship.

Steve

Welcome, TheFive0. A lot to learn and appreciate on this forum. Below is a list of SRP Senior Members and Mentors that are available in your area. They meet often in small groups to go over things of interest to the wet shaver. Also, they are available for a series of one on one meetings to help you over the beginning stages of straight razor shaving:

Euclid440 (Diamond Bar)
10pups (Orange)
RoyalCake (Torrance)
Voidmonster (Oceanside)


At least, I think they are in your area. Contact Euclid440 via a PM for more information.

Welcome, Steve

You certainly started out with high quality razors. Very, very nice.

Here is a link to other members.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/memberlist.php?do=search

Welcome aboard Steve enjoy your homework lol

Welcome, we have an active group here in So. Cal. and have a meet coming on April 26th.

Go to the Get together and Meeting, section of General Razor forum to sign up for the 2015 So.Cal get together, it is right around the corner and we have a good friendly group.

Lots of razor and some hands on fun.

Looking forward to meeting you.
Marty

Hello, Steve. Welcome to Straight Razor Place!

Welcome to the SRP Forum, Steve!

You certainly have a nice start on your razor collection.

Hi and welcome. Some great razors to start with. Any questions feel free to ask.

Welcome Steve, and seriously you will kick yourself if you don't make it to get together Marty (Euclid440) mentioned.

You'll meet some great people, and learn a little about straight razors while you are at it.

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Welcome Steve, and seriously you will kick yourself if you don't make it to get together Marty (Euclid440) mentioned.

You'll meet some great people, and learn a little about straight razors while you are at it.

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I am honestly trying to figure out if I can make it. I work graveyard (6PM to 6AM) the preceding, and the night of, the event so I am having to see if I can get a co-worker to trade shifts. It looks like a TOTAL blast!!!

Welcome to SRP, Steve

Hi Steve!

Thanks for the photos of you beautiful razors.

The guys Razorfeld named are all very knowledgeable. I haven't met them in person but they are no doubt very good teachers as well, so if you can make it to their meeting it would be well worth it.

Have fun!

Jeff

P.S. Great screen name.

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Hi Steve!

Thanks for the photos of you beautiful razors.

The guys Razorfeld named are all very knowledgeable. I haven't met them in person but they are no doubt very good teachers as well, so if you can make it to their meeting it would be well worth it.

Have fun!

Jeff

P.S. Great screen name.

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Thanks Jeff! It represents one of my favorite cars and my profession!!

I say, "Book'um Dano!" "Your guilty of a steal of a deal". Welcome Steve

Welcome brother. I am down in San Diego. If I can help you with anything please let me know.

Thanks Kyle. I have a sister I visit in Carlsbad so if I am headed down that way I will give you a holler. Maybe we could grab a cup o' joe or something.

Welcome to SRP! Nice razors, very nice. :)

Hi Steve & welcome to SRP! That's a good name because that's my name. You'll find a wealth of information on here just by using a simple tool you have there called your mouse. Just use it to click on anything you can click on, especially the Library here & you'll find all kinds of information. Wow, you stole that Duck at that price! Nothing wrong with the Filly either! I hope you have all of the other things needed which I'm sure you do since you have been doing this for a short while already. I won't go into too much detail since you are alreay a wet shaver but in case you haven't seen these yet, here are Lynn's YouTube video's:

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

It would be nice to see what else you have as far as a brush, soap, mug & so on so that we all can help out in anyway we can. You are on the most informative shaving form though & you will love it here so if you have any questions, just ask away or even feel free to pm me & i'll help out in anyway I can.
For now though just browse the site & enjoy. It's great to have you here.
Good luck my friend.

Im a SoCal person to. welcome and ask all the questions you need.

Welcome Steve to SRP. Nice razors to start!

Hey steve thanks for the welcoming on my newbie thread aswell looks like you got tons of help around these are a great group a great site and Ive enjoyed every minute of it and am sure you will to the library part of the site is very helpful hopefully you will get what you need out of it cause I did