Hello everyone! Had a passing interest with straights as a teenager, parents bought me a cheap shavette which I never seemed to get the hang of*. Recently decided to get into wet shaving thanks to the absurd price of cartridges, have been practicing with a Parker SR1 with reasonable results. My main problems at the moment are nicking myself with the corners of the blade and using too steep a blade angle.

Setup:
Parker SR1 + Shark blades
Frank Shaving fine badger brush
Proraso Red

Got an EJ89 on the way as well, so I suppose we'll see where I go from there. In the meantime, looking forward to learning from everyone here!

* Looking at said shavette now I can see that it had been loaded with a single edge industrial razor blade. No wonder it never worked well!