Thread: New guy

I'm the new guy, for now anyway. I've been using a safety razor for a year now and just picked up my first straight razor, if you'd call it that. Gonna poke around the site and see what I can learn.

Hello and Welcome. I am new here myself and I highly recommend to read the articles in the Library above, and then to reread them and probably once more for good measure. There is a lot of great information in there that had helped me out when choosing my first razor and doing my first shave.

Welcome to the forum. Check out gssixgun, lynnabrams, and some of the other names you see hear on youtube. You can put a face to the names, and actually see what they talk about and what you are reading. Their videos have helped me alot, especially when it came time to start honing.

Originally Posted by glopezz05

[...] and just picked up my first straight razor, if you'd call it that. Gonna poke around the site and see what I can learn.

What else would we call it? Is it a Parker SR1? A Feather shavette? A Dovo Shavette? Vincent? Magic? Diane? We wanna poke around you and see what we can learn!

Yeah, good point. Right on then...

My straight razor of choice, for now, is the Dovo Shavette. And I'm a bit fond of my Art of Shaving Silvertip brush. I've had it for over 5 years and just used some brush soap to freshen it up. Feels wonderful. I have a Merkur safety razor that I adore and its weird having the draw to continue using the straight razor, though I'm not tat into it, even though the merk is a great shave. Bringing it all together is the Art of Shaving soap and dish. Lemon scent, whatever they call it. Just switching from their cream and I think I like it.

Hello everybody I am new here my name is Bradford, Ann Arbor MI. I have ordered the DVD listed here it was pretty good for me to get started