Thread: Hey y'all.

Buy/Sell/Trade section for buying used goods, and the Library section on this board has a lot of helpful information on what to look for when starting out. Straight Razor Designs have beginner kits and they hand hone each and every razor they sell, should you decide you want new (and everything they sell, even the cheapest stuff, is good stuff).

sloanwinters has made you a very nice offer, and as you would be getting a honed, stropped and ready to go blade to try, what's not to like. And always, when you are new at this, shave first with a freshly honed razor before stropping. It is very easy to roll and or damage an edge with improper stropping technique and if you strop before your first shave with an edge, you have no idea where the fault lies. If you don't strop and your first shave is great, then you strop and the second shave is not so great.... you know what happened!

My only other piece of advice is to make sure you start with 2 razors.... If one razor goes dull, gets dinged on the sink corner, falls on the floor or gets hit by a meteor crashing through the roof of your house... you'll always have that second razor to tie you over until the first one gets honed, repaired etc.

Even though I've been at this game for a while, and like you, I had to shave for public work, I always carried an extra known good razor with me into the bathroom whenever I'm doing a first shave after a honing. It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen that what I thought was good and ready, wasn't.... it's awfully nice to have that second razor there so you can just pick it up and keep on shaving in full comfort.

Bottom line, you have to be clean shaven, but I don't think anyone will reach over a rub your face to see just how smooth it is.... a little bit of the pricklies will not *show* to anyone else... I did't get great shaves to start... they were good, but not great. And that was good enough for me....

Wishing you all the best in your journey into this madness known as straight razor shaving.....


Regards

Christian aka

Kaptain "Remember, Chicks dig scars and keep a recent photo of yourself for the surgeon... just in case" Zero