Thread: New from the Northwest (US)

Hello!

My name is Casey and I hail from a suburb of Portland, Oregon. I'm a student of 22 at Portland State University and am an English major with an AA. I love literature of several forms; mythology, graphic novels, classics (kafka, russian lit, some early American, etc), horror (particularly H.P. Lovecraft and Poe... King can be good), classic science fiction, and some comedy and satire. Besides literature, I love playing my bass and acoustic, an occasional video game or movie... Yeah... and sleeping

I have been recently indulging in older fancies such as straight shaving and classic attire. I picked up a straight razor and strop from Ruprazor.com. Great site! However, I have just begun to shave. I have literally only shaved twice and wasn't able to finish. The first time, I was a little nervous and felt a bit faint so I had to stop ofter about half of the first side. The second time I was much more confident but it didn't seem like the blade was taking off much. I stropped it both times before and after but it just didn't seem to cut it. Any advice? I've seen a few videos on youtube...

I'm excited to learn and figure out this new hobby and practice of mine.

Cheers!

Hello and welcome. As for your first shaves, it sounds similar to almost everyones here. As long as your stropping technique is decent..if not, you may have dulled the razor. And focus on your blade angle..makes a huge difference. No worries, it gets better with time and practice

Welcome! glad to see another from PDX. Im also new on here.
Is your razor shave ready? im assuming it is. Im also new at shaving but I found that face prepping really helped. and get the blade angle right, also forget about the old ways of pressure shaving as with a disposable. just get a comfortable steady grip on the straight and glide it down your face holding the angle. I usually go one round WITH the grain and lather up again and clean up against the grain. not sure if this is good advice but it works for me SO FAR lol. Im still learning myself

Welcome aboard!!

Thanks, you guys.

My razor was shipped shave ready. I feel like I stropped it wrong though. It doesn't sound wrong but I'm not sure. After today, I stropped it on the canvas side as well. I think I'm going to shave more regularly as well. I love the brush and my soap.

Here's a link to the razor I got,

RupRazor - Gold Dollar 84

I have noted the angle and will explore that next time I shave. Thanks a lot!

Welcome aboard..

A small heads up because we are still months away but just want to let you know we do have a get together up in this area..

here is the info from last year

http://straightrazorpalace.com/get-t...a-meet-up.html

And we just started the planning for this years..

http://straightrazorpalace.com/get-t...a-meet-up.html



Consider yourself invited

Welcome aboard

Welcome to Straight Razor Place!

Welcome. it would be nice to see you at the meet.

Originally Posted by deighaingeal

Welcome. it would be nice to see you at the meet.

I'm sorry, I don't meet people I don't know. It's weird.