Thread: New Member From England

Let me introduce myself as Brucey from England - came across this site via eBay sublink from Taylors 1000 who sells Cutthroats.

Just purchased a Silver Tipped Badger Bristle Brush from Taylors of Old Bond Street London along with their Sandalwood Soap.

Also in my armoury:
Geo Trumper Sandalwood Skin Food
Geo Trumper Sandalwood Creme
Geo Trumper Alum Block - In my opinion the best I have used

Body Shop Macca Root Creme
Body Shop White Musk for men Aftershave Balm
Headers Barbers Alum Block

Dovo Shavette
Gillette Double Edge Razor
Gillette Mach 3

And my favorite old Shaving Jug

Brucey - London - England

Welcome to SRP! There is a ton of information to be found here in the Wiki. Feel free to post questions if you don't find the answers you're looking for and best of luck.

Hello, Brucey:

Welcome to Straight Razor Place.

You have loaded yourself with quality wet shaving products. Well done. Now take your time looking at the site and perusing the wealth of information floating around.

Any question, please post them. We're delighted to have you with us.

Regards,
Obie

Welcome to SRP. You'll find a wealth of information here! Try not to get too distracted at first & stick to mastering the basics.

Welcome!

You'll find everyone here helpful and informative.

Welcome to the club. I have been part of it for a few days but have already found a lot help and info from all the guys here.

Wishing I had stumbled uopn this website sooner after todays shaving attempt having had to revert back to my double edge Gillette razor to get me out of a messy situation !!!.

Have just ordered the Shaving DVD via this site hopefully will give me some good advice and some more background knowledge on the Cutthroat.

Originally Posted by Brucey

Wishing I had stumbled uopn this website sooner after todays shaving attempt having had to revert back to my double edge Gillette razor to get me out of a messy situation !!!.

Have just ordered the Shaving DVD via this site hopefully will give me some good advice and some more background knowledge on the Cutthroat.

If you are reverting to the DE from the shavette, then I am not surprised. My trial of the Dovo shavette found it very unforgiving compared to my straight razor.

Yes the damage was done by the Shavette - I think it's best that this item gets stowed away for just cleaning my neckline up rather than daily shaving I thought it may be a good introduction to the Straight Razor but alas it's proving otherwise I will continue to use the Gillette Double Edge untill the purchase of a Cutthroat in the very near future.

I have just read an article on using Castle Forbes products an avenue I will adventure down when my current collection of creams and balms are used.

Welcome Brucey. Castle Forbes products are excellent, especially the Lime shave cream.
Truefitt and Hill are also some of my favorites, and I recommend them. The 1805 especially. We also have a few members that make their own creams. One worty of mention is Alraz. You can send him a pm here. His shave creams are among the best.
Also, availble in the UK is Xpec. A shave soaps that looks and acts more like a cream.

As far as shave balms go, Speick is excellent, especially the Intensiv cream. Taylor of old bond st. makes something called
Sandalwood luxury aftershave gel. This stuff is thick and smells wonderful. It the only balm I've found that will stay with you for hours and hours. It's particularly good for After shave burn, it's thick, like grease...Its expensive, but good stuff always is..


Check our classifieds here. You can find some great deals on straight razors if you wish to give it a go.

Enjoy,

Rich