Yet another new guy from Germany

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12-17-2016, 11:26 AM
Marverel

Yet another new guy from Germany

Hello everyone,

I've been reading here for quite a while now and even went as far as to create an account a few months ago ... but I have never posted anything until now. After 5 months of shaving with straigt razors I guess I am finally ready ;)

My name is Martin, I'm 51 years old and live near Berlin - some of you might already know me from either TSD or the German forum "Gut rasiert". After more than 30 years of perceiving shaving as a chore (using cartridge razors and canned goo) and a brief episode with electric shavers I switched to soap, brush and DE razor in spring of 2015 and learned to enjoy my shaves.

Out of curiosity I bought an inexpensive Gold Dollar 208 a few months ago - and I got the hang of shaving with a straight pretty quickly. So the Gold Dollar (which I still like to use occasionally) got some company - at the moment my small collection has a dozen straights (modern and vintage), approximately 30 DE and SE razors, 25 soaps and 11 brushes.

Okay - enough talking. Thank you all for the information provided on this site ... and I'm looking forward to becoming a part of this.
12-18-2016, 10:54 AM
eddy79

Hi and welcome. Sounds like you have the start of a nice collection.
12-18-2016, 11:39 AM
Dieseld

Welcome to the forum! Looking forward to hearing more form you
Great bunch of folks here and information to overload you sometimes
12-18-2016, 12:01 PM
BobH

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you are off to a good start.

Bob
12-18-2016, 01:28 PM
Leatherstockiings

Hello Martin. Welcome to Straight Razor Place!
12-18-2016, 06:27 PM
celestino

Welcome to the forum, Martin. :)
12-18-2016, 10:31 PM
Prahston

Welcome to SRP!! Sounds like a great start... You will definitely be able to take it as far as you'd ever want with info and dealings from SRP. :-)
12-18-2016, 10:43 PM
Addison

Hi...Welcome,,,,,,,,Enjoy,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ty
12-20-2016, 11:16 AM
Marverel

Thank you guys for the warm welcome!

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Originally Posted by BobH

Sounds like you are off to a good start.

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Originally Posted by eddy79

Sounds like you have the start of a nice collection.

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Originally Posted by Prahston

Sounds like a great start... You will definitely be able to take it as far as you'd ever want with info and dealings from SRP. :-)

What are you saying ... there will be EVEN MORE razors in the future? :dropjaw:
12-22-2016, 11:24 PM
eddy79

If only it would stop at razors. Expect brushes, soaps, strops, hones etc to all somehow breed