Thread: Greetings from Queensland Australia

Hey all.
Just wanted to drop in here and say hello and introduce myself.
I have been shaving for 22 or so years, with probably 20 of those, up until last month, with an electric. My father uses electric as did his father before him so the men in our family have known nothing else. I am sure my grandfather used a straight and DE too but he was an early adaptor.

So just under 5 weeks ago I decided to scratch an itch that had come and gone for many years - to try traditional wet shaving, with a DE. As is apparently often the case, the bug bit and bit hard. Within a week I had several orders for soaps, brushes and razors. Fast forward a month and I had worked out which blades I like, go my technique pretty good experiencing BBS and no irritation most of the time. Then I had a thought; These straights look bad as, and don't seem to be that bad when it comes to upkeep. So I PM'ed a member of the Aussie Forum (predominately DE) I have been frequenting from the start asking if he had a straight he wanted to sell me.

Come forward to Monday I received a nice 1950's 6/8 Tanifuji and have been running the thing over my face these past three mornings. Things are going well, but I have a lot to learn so here I am, banging about SRP forums looking for anything that will help me and maybe in a while I might be able to help others.

Welcome! Hope you find what you need on SRP.

welcome aboard mate from a bit south of you
don't be shy asking any questions, glad to help where we can

Hi and welcome aboard. Just sold a strop to another new guy in Queensland. Seems like there may be a few of you over there

Hey Ed, you sold a strop to a veteran - check my join date he he . BTW the strop is great.

Anyway, back to our mate from NQ. Ask any questions, we'll try to answer.

Regards from the sunnycoast.

Mike sold 2 strops. Both ended up in Queensland. 1 to you and another to a new starter looking for a first strop. Of course I recommended he comes here for information.

Welcome. Lots of info in the library which will probably inspire more questions.

Thanks for the welcome folks. I just received a great strop from a member of an Aussie forum. I had been practising on a Denim strop I made and other things (a ruler on a book) but sure enough I nicked it on it's second use!! Pretty shallow and off to one side but yeah... so now looking for how to sand it out!!! Glad I have that out of the way now so I can get one without that monkey on my back.

Hi and welcome aboard.
Use the search button (i use it a lot and therefore i don't ask a lot) and if you don't find nothing to help feel free to ask as much as you want/can.

Enjoy your new hobby and beware with the AD's.

Welcome to the forum.