Thread: G'day Wet Shavers & Straight from Sydney the land of OZ

G'day Wet Shavers & Straight Razors,

Mine if I join the Straight Razors club after 23 years of using the standard cartridge razors, disposable razors and foam creams, I've decided too change over to Safety Razors & Shavette.

Safety Razors:-
EJ DE89 Extra Grip Knurled
Muhle R89 Classic
Merkur 34C
Merkur Progress Long Handle (Blade Gap #2)
Razorock Mission
Parker 31R Shavette

DE Blades:-
Gillette Silver Blue
Personna Lab Blue
Polsilver Super Iridium

Shaving Brushes are:-
RazoRock Plissoft
Semogue 620
Semogue 830
Semogue 1800
Simpsons Duke 3 Best Badger 2-band
Simpsons Berkeley 46 Best Badger 2-band

Shaving Soaps and Cream:-
Tabac Soap
Mitchell's Wool Fat
Haslinger Sheeps Milk & Lanolin (very similar to MWF)
Summer Breeze by Shaver Heaven
Vanilla Oak by Shaver Heaven from
Hazelnut Cappuccino by Shaver Heaven
Forbidden Forest by Shaver Heaven
Sweet Almond Milk by Shaver Heaven

Aftershave Balm:-
Natio Calming Aftershave Balm
Natio Maximum Razor Relief Healing Lotion
T.N. Dickinson Witch Hazel Astringent
Australian Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Fragrance:-
Tabac Cologne EDC
Tabac Spray EDT
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male EDT
L'Occitane Baux EDT

Cheers

PS:- Are their any Masons wet shavers here just like to say G'day Band of Brothers

Hi Speedy, Welcome to SRP mate, there are a few Masons on site, I'm not but have made Many Masons rings for those who are.

It looks like you have enough "Stuff" to start a shaving store down under?

Might have to send you a Straight razor to get you hooked, then you will want more of them for the superior type shave that they provide.....

Welcome from SE Washington State USA.

You'll find that we have the Great and Powerful 'OZ' as a MOD here and he's in Sydney.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/members/onimaru55.html

Drop him a line, he's a great guy!

Hi and welcome from the west coast. I think you more than qualified as converted. Sounds like you got bitten hard. I'm with Fal we need to get you a straight and get you really shaving. Be sure to check out the down under forum as well. Any questions feel free to ask

G'day FAL,

I've been wet shaving for nearly 6 months now and I've never used a real straight razors in my life this is why I went and bought a Parker 31R shavette, and I've been using the shavette for a while when I couldn't find time to using a real straight razor and then used a strop when I was in UK for 2 and half weeks as part of the Masonic Lodges for United Grand Lodge of England and also in Edinburgh for the Grand Lodge of Scotland.

In a few months time when I start saving some money and I'll get all the straight gear supplies and I'll be moving over to straight style, I wanted to used the shavette for a while so I can get better in my straight technique before I move over to a real straight razor.

Also I'm thinking about buying a IBC Straight Shavette has anybody here SRP has own a IBC Shavette and what do you think of them, I'm very concern about the big round thumb screw that might get in the way of shaving depending on the angle during the shave. Does anybody have any issue about these problems the big round thumb tighten screw for the blade to attach together, and for those who have never heard of a IBC Straight Shavette see link Irving Barber Company, LLC

Cheers

Originally Posted by eddy79

Be sure to check out the down under forum as well

G'day Eddy,

There's is an Australian & New Zealand Wet Shaving forum call Paste & Cut so don't worry I'll get all the information from there, and beside a friend has send me an email to check the SRP forum so here I am to get as much help and advice as possible about Straight Razors & Shavette.

Cheers

Yeah am aware of the aussie forum but found far more info here so stuck around and didn't go back(spend enough time hete don't think I could handle2 forums to keep up with ). There is a sub forum in the international forum for aussies where there is some more local info.

Welcome to the forum.

Originally Posted by celestino

Welcome to the forum.

G'day Celestino and thank you

G'Day and welcome, Speedy - glad to have you here and, I'm sure you'll have a good time.
My Dad was in the craft and got to the highest degree (33rd, I think)