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12-26-2015, 10:01 PM #1Junior Member
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Hello from Sweden!
Hello everyone!
I'm Johan from sweden 26 years old, and have since a couple of months been shaving with a straight razor thanks to my father.
I have bought a couple of vintage cheap razors from a Swedish type of eBay and I am trying to figure out the whole honing thing also!
I look forward to get to learn from all you people who have already taught me a thing or two without even knowing it, it's great!
I wish you all an early happy new year! =)
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12-26-2015, 10:13 PM #2Senior Member
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Hello Johan!
Welcome to SRP.
You'll learn a lot about everything related to straight razors here.
Lot's of great posts and knowledge shared freely.
Ask questions. Watch videos. Read.
Cheers, WillisIs it over there or over yonder?
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12-26-2015, 10:18 PM #3Senior Member
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Welcome Johan! Hope you continue on with this adventure and continue to learn something about it everyday. As you already said, I've found this forum's members to be amazingly helpful and supportive. I expect you'll continue to experience that now that you're "official".
Just call me Harold
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12-26-2015, 10:37 PM #4Senior Member
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Hey and welcome to the forum Johan.
BobLife is a terminal illness in the end
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12-27-2015, 12:00 AM #5Senior Member
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Hello Johan, welcome to SRP.
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12-27-2015, 12:04 AM #6Senior Member
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Hello Johan and welcome to SRP.
Is your dad a straight razor shaver?S.L.A.M.,.......SHAVE LIKE A MAN!!!
Not like a G.I.R.L. (Gentleman In Razor Limbo)
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12-27-2015, 12:15 AM #7Fatty Boom Boom
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2016 is going to be a great year Johan!
"Call me Ishmael"
CUTS LANE WOOL HAIR LIKE A Saus-AGE!
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12-27-2015, 12:12 PM #8Senior Member
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Hi and welcome. Good luck with your honing and any questions feel free to ask
My wife calls me.........
Can you just use Ed
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12-27-2015, 12:50 PM #9Senior Member
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Be welcome, northerner Johan!
I don't need much to take care of my Swedish razors. A coticule for setting bevel and get a pre-finished edge, a translucent arkansas to get it finished, a 10x3 inches paddle strop (leather over balsa) coated with Chrome oxide to polish the edge and a leather hanging strop. I'm sure the natural stones can be easily replaced by selected artificial hones without problems.
With my set-up I bet I'll be able to keep my razors during all my life, replacing just the leather parts occasionally. I have more stuff, but just for lust purposes.
Keep it simple, at first, to acquire experience under controllable conditions.
Best luck!Last edited by Matheus; 12-27-2015 at 12:54 PM.
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12-27-2015, 01:04 PM #10Senior Member
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Greetings. Love that straights have turned a chore into a hobby. Sounds like you're lucky to have your dad to teach you.
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."-Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
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