Greetings from Central Florida

[mike001]

Hello all my name is Mike and I live on the space cost in central Florida.
I am new to straight razor shaving about 3 months, My main razor is a Thiers Issard Horned handled razor I think its a 8/7. I'm in to honing and have bought a half dozen old razors that are in real nice condition to practice on with the honing 8k,6k,4k,1k,800 grit water stones. with the honing I got up to the hanging hair test with most of my razors, bevel setting and polishing, stropping and using the linen side of the strop with some diamond past. And about a thousand hours of watching you tube and reading about the craft has resulted in the best most fun/comfortable shaves in my life. So I think its time to join the forum and say hi .

What a Great Feeling to not have razor rash, easily remove my wire hard beard with little effort and the feeling after a incredibly close shave that dosent hurt in any way. where has this been my hole life, shaving every day even in the Army with a plastic disposable razors? what the hell?

[syslight]

Welcome to SRP! glad you finally decided to make this your home.
sounds like you have been doing a fine job.
a work of caution about the diamond paste on your linen strop. frequent use of this may cause damage to your edge. most people use a plain linen and leather strop daily i do 20 or so laps on the linen and 50-70 on the leather i don't really count anymore i just strop for about the same amount of time everyday. pasted strops are for refreshing or refining and edge, not something you should need daily.

other than that stay the course!

enjoy,
jim

[Cove5440]

Welcome to SRP! Sounds like you have an idea of what you're doing already. Enjoy!

[Walt]

Hi Mike - Welcome to the forum. It sounds like you are well on your way to getting your feet wet in this ocean of straight razor mania. I'm also a central Floridian, so if you have any questions that I might help you with, please feel free to contact me.

Regards - Walt

[raysofcolorado]

Hey Mike, welcome to SRP. I hope you continue to enjoy your straight razor experience! Definitely beats a plastic disposable razor!