Thread: Hello from Indianapolis!

The little big town, although I've also lived in Chicago, London, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Luoyang and Hangzhou, China! Was a bit of a traveler in my younger days. Now I'm back home again in Indiana. I'm originally from the Lafayette area, for you hoosiers here. Purdue graduate, to boot. I also happen to be distantly related to Humphrey Bogart (and share his mother's surname), hence the avatar!

Like many, I made my purchases before coming here and researching more but I didn't come out too badly. Unfortunately I picked the one vendor (that I won't mention, those are the rules I think) that doesn't include professional honing to all blades sold. Ended up with a DOVO Black Star, seems to shave OK but I've never had or held a well honed razor so I don't have anything to compare it to. Also got a super badger brush and a nice stand with a bowl, and bay rum soap that's a proprietary brand of the vendor. Oh, and an Illinois strop. This was about two weeks ago. I'm also a noob but my first couple of shaves haven't gone too horribly.

I got into this because the older I get the more I appreciate more refined and old fashioned things, and it turns shaving into a hobby instead of just something you do. I finally gave up trying to grow a beard or goatee since it's too thin on the chin.

Chester,

Welcome to SRP from a fellow resident of the Circle City.

Consult the SRO wiki. It has tons of information related to straight razors and straight razor shaving.

Glad to have you aboard. Hope that your stay here at SRP will be an enjoyable one.

Welcome to SRP Chester. Great to hear that your experience is a good one so far with SR shaving. Plenty of good information and plenty of good people on the forum with heaps of experience and knowledge.

Enjoy yourself,
Stu

welcome to SRP. I use a Dovo Black Star too, it gives me nice shaves