Hi everybody, my name is Kevin Smith and I am already addicted to my new hobby of shaving with a SR! I live in Fayetteville AR and during the day I am a unicycle riding, knife-juggling, fire-breathing, ballroom dance instructor who likes to start each morning with a jog around the neighborhood on my jumping stilts. I think it's safe to say that I collect unusual hobbies

About a month ago my best friend, his Russian fiancée and I went down to Texas for a concert by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She is a classically trained pianist and they were doing a Russian composers show, so it seemed like a perfect activity.

Being somewhat new to the whole American consumerism thing she was spellbound by the large malls down in Dallas. After we spent literally more than 8 hours following her from store to store we were just about to leave for the concert when we passed an Art of Shaving store. Chris knew that I was going to have to go inside because I had been talking about wanting to learn to shave with a straight razor since we were in the Boy Scouts together as kids.

Since we were in a rush I didn't have as much time as I would have wanted to talk to the people in the store, but I ended up buying a Dovo Shavette to start learning with. I figured this would make sense because I could practice with a blade that I always knew would be as sharp as possible and not learn any bad habits with a blade I had inadvertently dulled due to my lack of knowledge about stropping etc.

Within a few weeks I was hooked and came here to purchase my first "real" razor - an antique Tivoli with beautiful scrollwork down the spine. I am really loving shaving with a straight and was so excited to find such a thriving community of likeminded people online!

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