Thread: Greetings from St. Louis!

Hello everyone, I'm Neal, and I live in the St. Louis area. I threw away the carts a little over a year ago in favor of safety razors and blades. Loved it. My experience with straight razors includes using a Feather SS kamisori style and, today for the first time, a traditional straight razor. I also have a kamisori that needs honed and I plan on finally breaking it out after getting more experience with the traditional. I'm using the straight as part of a focus on a forum, but plan to stick with it beyond the focus to master it. I never thought I would be interested in straights but find myself drawn more to them. So, here I am, one shave under my belt with no blood and looking forward to learning all I can. Great to be here.

Hi there Neal. Nice to see you.

Thanks. Figured I'd come on over and get acquainted. The power of the dark side is great! lol

It's only dark after a mistake. Blood loss does that to a person. You should be fine but that Soviet razor is scary. You may want EMS standing by for that one. Traditional straights are easier then the feather(pain stick). At least most of them are. Should I hone up that aluminum beer bottle tomorrow? Might be smoother then that soviet thing.

I have already realized how much forgiveness traditional has over the pain sticks. Getting up on the tip with a pain stick is instant blood. I made that error this morning and no blood at all. I have EMS on alert for the Soviet shaves as well as a room reserved in my favorite hospital. Might as well hone that bottle. If the Soviet tries to kill me I may want to compare.

I'll start cutting out a kamisori shape and honing it tomorrow. You're good with a wedge right?

Yep. Works for me.

Morning Neil...
Glad to have you here.
Enjoy your journey here and best of shaves to you.
Hope you have a safe and happy holiday.

Originally Posted by outback

Morning Neil...
Glad to have you here.
Enjoy your journey here and best of shaves to you.
Hope you have a safe and happy holiday.

Thanks and the same to you.

You sir, have the good fortune of living near the Honing Dude himself. Lynn, the founder of this forum and a heck of a nice guy who happens to know quite a bit

about razors and all related things, lives in St. Louis now. If you need help with anything, he's the guy to visit.