Thread: New SR Shaver in NW Arkansas

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!

Welcome, and that's a very nice straight you've got there. I think your Shavette days are over now that you have this beauty! Good luck, there's lots to learn, and endless knowledge from the gentlemen on this site.

Aloha and Welcome. I am new also, that is a beautiful razor have you used it yet? How would you compare the true straight to the Shavette? I went straight to a straight, today was day two and all is well.

Welcome here, your tivoli is beautiful!!!

Well, I just met member Tylerbrycen, who graciously offered to come over and answer any questions I had and is also going to give my blade a nice fresh honing! What an excellent group of people I have stumbled upon!

And thank you all for the compliments on my razor. I'm a big fan of the Stephen King series The Dark Tower, which features a gunslinger from an ancient world. Roses are a major element in this series, so when I saw the design of this razor I thought to myself, "Maybe Roland would have used a razor like this one..."

I love the fact that it is old and undoubtedly has some sort of history but I don't have the slightest idea what it might be. If anybody has any knowledge about this type of razor that would be awesome to hear!

Hey Tuxeed- Glad to see another Arkansan here on SRP! Unfortunately, I don't think there are too many of us lurking on here... Tylerbrycen has been a big help to me as well, so make sure to learn all you can from him!

Also, join the Arkansans group! Gotta build up our member base

Hello, that's a great looking blade you got there! Ask any questions at all; we all know there will be, we all had them, so feel free.

Ooh, an Arkansans group... checking now!

Silent Bob?...if that's you, say hi to Jay from me.

No, unfortunately that's not me. Can you believe that there is actually more than one person in the world with the name Kevin Smith?!?