Thread: well here i am...lol

here a little back round on me.
i grew up in NJ. my father was a straight razor only guy. he had 2 razors that he swore by. (wish i knew what ones) about 15 years ago just before my son was born my father passed away. we (my sisters and i along with my mother) are certain we buried my father with one of his blades. and have been looking for the other one sense early 2012. the hope was that i would be able to use it as my first straight blade. well it still has not shown up and i am all but giving up on finding it.
i will more than likely go ahead and just pick up one from whipped dog as a starter kit. not the way i wanted to start but oh well. i gotta start some were. i watched my father shave both his face and hole head with his straight my hole life. oddly he never taught me how to shave..
by the time in my own life i needed to perform this mundane task i just bought my self disposable multi blade shick/bic things and got the chore done.. well i'm 36 years old now my son is 15 and he will need to learn to shave shortly.... (see were i'm going with this?)
i presently still use the multi bladed disposable blades for both my face and head. i remember my father standing in front of the sink happily shaving away. he even told me that a "good shave is a lost art" but i think that was just because he was a artist by trade lol.... his father was also a straight blade shaver (but just the face) so i'm sure a few of you see were i am coming from. i have been reading and watching a crap ton of videos on the straight blade. i found this forum and a few others but this one looked like the right for me. so again "here i am"

Welcome to SRP. Sounds like you are on the right track so far. If you haven't yet make sure to check out the stickies in the beginners forum. They will be at the top of the page in red.

Welcome to SRP!
great history shame about misplacing his other razor... i still shave with my dad and granddad's straight at least one is always in my rotation.

oddly i grew up in NJ as well and that is where 90% of the family still live.


enjoy,
jim

Originally Posted by syslight

Welcome to SRP!
great history shame about misplacing his other razor... i still shave with my dad and granddad's straight at least one is always in my rotation.

oddly i grew up in NJ as well and that is where 90% of the family still live.


enjoy,
jim

i'm not giving up all hope of finding it... i just figure its time to get one of my own any way...
at least if i mess one one up it wont be a real loss to me.
do you know of any brick and mortar places to go and buy a blade from in NJ? or just talk shop kinda place?
(im warren county nj)

Well I bet your regretting all those wasted years with the gillette/schick company now then huh?! Good to see you finally got here, even if the path you chose was a little out of the way.


Mick

Originally Posted by lrd3

i'm not giving up all hope of finding it... i just figure its time to get one of my own any way...
at least if i mess one one up it wont be a real loss to me.
do you know of any brick and mortar places to go and buy a blade from in NJ? or just talk shop kinda place?
(im warren county nj)

sorry i was not clear... i grew up in warren county but have not lived there in decades, i do visit though. As for stores i have not a clue but there are a bunch of guys on the other side of the state that might know they just had a meetup last weekend.

enjoy,
jim

Welcome. It's not clear from your post if you've ever had a staright razor shave of any type. I would suggest that you find a barber who will give you a straight razor shave and see if you like it. If you do, that shave will also give you a baseline on which to judge your future efforts.

After that, there is an Art of Shaving in Paramus to get a look/see at the shiny new ones. Be warned that the edge that they have are from the factory and will still need some attention from someone with honing skills to give you that barber type shave.

You can get some shaving gear and soap at Target and Walmart. I think your best bet is to try Larry at the Whipped Dog and get the starter kit. Skip Ebay. Or try one of the vendors here.

Enjoy, it's fun.

Welcome..cool story. Good luck finding the razor.

well here it is. i found in our garage. behind my fathers tool box. it has been 15 years sense the lid of his old tool box got closed. and when i closed it i found a inch or more of dust covering the box which was wrapped in a yellowed brittle piece of paper sitting just behind the lid......i wish i had taken pics during the find but honestly emotions got the best of me....
the box is dated "9/3/74 r" from Becker's cutlery,grinding,sharpening 62 n 12th st. phila. pa.
the paper had some writing on it as well but thats gone oops
i would think with some work i could take it on myself and then send it out for sharpening (if needed) it will shave now (of course i tried it on my arm
the question i have is who makes it? and was it a good one? if it holds more value than just sentimental i will of course be sending it out to be restored. but other wise I'm up for it......
any thoughts?

Welcome!! Great story

That's REALLY rusty, I wouldn't try it until all that red rust is off of there, that's a tetanus breeding ground.