Thread: Hello everybody

I am from Troy alabama and i just started shaving with a straight razor . Just got a nice wade and butcher razor for barbers use thats not sharp and i have a norton 220/1k 4k,8k , a natural 12k and strop with chromium oxide paste on the way cant wait to sharpen it up.

Hi, Christian, and welcome to SRP! Sounds like you've got a good set of gear. Pics are always welcome. You'll find everyone here very friendly and willing to answer any questions you may have.
See you in the trenches, buddy!

ok thx ill try and get some pics up later tomarrow and u guys can tell me what u think of the wade and butcher i got

Hello and Welcome, Christian.

A few thoughts worth pondering. If you spend any time on threads where guys are learning the shave and want to hone their own, the experienced guys tell them to first learn the shave with a pro quality edge. After that - to learn the stones. FWIW, most guys including myself ignored this counsel. I'm probably like most. I regret trying to learn both at once. It held back my shaving skills alot. I bled alot.

Another question is where the W&B came from. Antique store? Ebay?. If so, chances are high that it needs more than honing - likely a fair amount of restorative grinding to get the edge and the spine on roughly parallel courses. Only then can real honing be started. I would suggest running your first blade through a pro - so you know what its supposed to feel like when you shave. That way, you'll know how your honing is progressing.

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Welcome to SRP, Christian.

Please, please, please read and re-read this post and think long and hard about it.

That being said, we all wish you the very best on your journey

Originally Posted by pinklather

Hello and Welcome, Christian.

A few thoughts worth pondering. If you spend any time on threads where guys are learning the shave and want to hone their own, the experienced guys tell them to first learn the shave with a pro quality edge. After that - to learn the stones. FWIW, most guys including myself ignored this counsel. I'm probably like most. I regret trying to learn both at once. It held back my shaving skills alot. I bled alot.

Another question is where the W&B came from. Antique store? Ebay?. If so, chances are high that it needs more than honing - likely a fair amount of restorative grinding to get the edge and the spine on roughly parallel courses. Only then can real honing be started. I would suggest running your first blade through a pro - so you know what its supposed to feel like when you shave. That way, you'll know how your honing is progressing.

ok thanks for the suggestions i will look into it but until then im going to try and upload u guys a pic of my razor my camera isnt to great so u cant see much details but will give u idea of what im working with. and i think i attacked photo to this not sure, also i recieved this from ebay everything sseems to be align and it has a nice noise to it if i lightly bring my finger over the blade

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here are two more pictures of the blade has a cool spike tip
i will try and get someone from here to check it out with me sending it to them but im going to be gone a few days with family and might not have money for it atm

G'Day Christian,
That is one sweet looking blade - so much so that I was going to tell you that it was rubbish to send it to me for disposal.......
I would just give it a good clean (hot water and soap), give it a polish and send it out for proper honing.
If you were in Australia I'd do it for you for the price of return postage.

Welcome Christian, and congrats on a nice blade find. I'll strongly second Pinklather's advice, as I also tried to combine honing and shaving into the same learning curve. I didn't make real progress on either until my first purchase of a professionally honed razor.

Best wishes to you