Greetings from North Vancouver Canada
After spending some time snooping the site, I am honoured to have now joined.
I had my first straight razor experience many years ago (1986) while working in a tiny village in Southern Italy. The barber there used straight razors for finishing work when i got a haircut. Liking the close shave I also started going for a regular shave. I loved it. Neither brave nor wise enough at the time to take up the sport myself, I have only now begun. I went to a local barber shop which sells a limited supply of razors but also gives shave lessons. I took a lesson and armed with a beginners coolcut4 by slicke, a number of practice shaves sanse blade, and views of how to shave vids on youtube, have begun in earnest.
Okay. So far so good. Moderate bloodshed the first time out and substantially less on subsequent attempts. I am hooked. Likely, like many, I am now ready to go out there and get my first real shave-ready razor. Where to start? That, now is the question.
Long term aim. To begin a collection of great quality instruments, learn how to hone, stop, maintain and eventually restore them. And to have fewer razors than fountain pens. I have to pay the mortgage after all.
