Thread: New member introduction

I started just using my dominant hand but after reading posts etc there seemed to be a consensus that changing hands was the best way to go about this. It's coming along, to be honest I get as close as an electric shave so its not noticeable to the public just to me and my wife lol. Besides the excitement of getting through a shave without blood is really an incentive at this point. Thanks for the welcome I really enjoy this site and am glad its here for us to share.

Cheers
Dave

Welcome to SRP Dave !!!!

A lot of great folks and info here, check out the library
Do what's comfortable with your hands. Yes using both is easier to many of us here, but it takes practice. Remember just shave the lather, no pressure.
We're here to help

Enjoy and have fun!!

Welcome to the forum.

To save loosing more blood try practicing with a butter knife....................

Welcome to SRP.

If you're able to achieve marginal results with your off hand, that's great. Keep at it and in no time it'll be second nature. Try doing all the easy stuff with the left hand and the hard stuff with the right.

One trick that I used was to make my lather in a bowl, using my off hand. It felt clumsy as hell, but soon felt natural. As an added bonus, it involved no blood loss!

Hi and welcome aboard. You mentioned using a quick sharp stone. I take it that it's a knife stone so will likely only do the very basics for a razor and you will need higher grit stones to complete honing a razor.

Check out the library lots of info including honing and what is needed

Welcome to the Forum, we would like to follow your progress. Please let us know if we can help in any way.

I had a bit of beginner luck and bought a Boker King Cutter with a quick sharpe honing stone and a Gillet 84 adjustable safety razor along with a few other items for $11.50.