Thread: A pritty much lost norwegian.

Hi, I discovered this forum when I was searching for...hmmmm... straigt razors?
I live in Harstad, north of Norway. 36 years old, but still looking good, yet...
Here we are 23 500 fishermen and polarbear hunters who are nearly blinded by the midnight sun in the summer, and who cant see anything in the wintertime when the sun is gone for apprx 3 months......
No we are not but some tend to think so.
Here we live of... hmmmm... I dont know really...each other?
But we have everything we need, especially bad roads. But we get along. We also have an airport, to many soccerfields, to few horses, A ski-center, a harbour for the Coastliner, which in Norway are called the fastliner, which is a lie. In the early days around 1880 it might have been fast, but no longer

I am looking for a straigt razor, and hopefully I wont cut my head of the first time I use it.

Is ebay safe for buying?

This Damaskus is probably to cheap and too "good" to be true?

N.MIRZA CUSTOM MADE DAMASCUS STEEL STRAIGHT RAZOR/KNIFE - eBay (item 220685162192 end time Nov-18-10 07:02:31 PST)
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This is extremely cheap, but a customer gave it a very good review...

Empire - SHAVING STRAIGHT CUT THROAT RAZOR + STROP R on eBay (end time 21-Nov-10 22:09:51 GMT)

And I dont know if I am allowed to post anything yet, so I take a chance on making a tread inside my presentation. I promise too read all your good stuff later

I found this statement in the Cyril Salter razor tread which was impossible to get sharp: the razor, not the tread...

:"As I do with all razors I get that have a less than perfect bevel I reset the bevel starting with 1.5K Shapton followed by a 5K Shapton, then Y/G Escher and eventually the Nakayama"

Hmmm, you lost me at "perfect bevel"
I only understand daily speech english...

Whats a bevel?

Whats a 1.5K Shapton? A honing stone?

Y/G Escher?

The Nakayama?

Is it a good tread here for learning about stropping and honing?
Some guys in here seems te be a bit frightened of honing and stropping.
THATS MAKES ME CURIOUS

Sorry for beeing stupid, Im from Norway