Thread: My Very First Straight Razor-Show Us Your First Straight

I don't know you but wishing you the best!!!!

Originally Posted by angler

I don't know you but wishing you the best!!!!

I had it checked out & it isn't that bad yet but was told once it gets to a certain point it will need to be fixed!

Don't have a picture of the actual razor, but it was a Dovo Special. Got it in March, 2010. Earlier this year I got 6 to make a complete set. SRD had 5 in stock + one one ebay.

My first all came at once. These were my Grandfather's razors and based on the age of some were also likely my great grand fathers.

I’ve been shaving straight razor for 3 years and would like to share my beginnings.

So, 3 years ago I longed for shaving straight razor. Then, I had already been interested in traditional shaving and had been using razor for blades.

When I heard from dad that my grandpa used razor with some “Solinegn” mark I knew that my 1st razor must have come from there

Target was determined and it was time to implement it. Seemingly easy Today, knowledge about traditional shaving, especially straight razor shaving, is rarely passed down from generation to generation, from father to son.

After long time reading many forums and shaving sites, watching hours of YouTube videos – really I didn’t know what to choose Lots of offers, a huge range of possibilities, variety of products etc. I wasn't an expert. I wasn't really sure I would like razor because I had never done it before. I decided to start with something really simple for beginners and as new as possible.

I found a beginner-set, which included:
- Revisor straight razor, 5/8 c-steel
- Strop, highest quality
- Revisol, oil for razor
https://www.revisor-solingen.de/inde.../5-0000-detail





I was very happy when it turned out that Revisor is a very good manufacturer. And, from Solingen, too. Beginner set – was also an advantage – 3 in 1. I already had a brush and cream, so – let’s go!

Earlier, I told my fiancee about my idea of straight razor but she didn’t belive me. The surprise came when I unpacked the parcel from Revisor, hehe

So, being an experienced theoretician of the Internet, www and YouTube, I shaved for the first time on a 2 day old beard. With hair, of course. “Not bad” - I thought – “I'll try it tomorrow”. I tweaked it a bit with a blade razor and it was quite good. The next day, when I was shaving, it was no good. “Quite bad” - I thought – “I'll try in 2 or 3 days”. I improved my shaving with the machine again. After 3 days – another shaving. “Better, better” – I thought. Following this trend, I shaved with a straight razor again, and again and again – when hairs were not small, but moderate.

So time passed, I bought new accessories, soaps, creams, brushes, the 2nd razor … and it is my hobby.

Great story, and some great memories and friends in this thread.

For me, it was about learning a new skill, and resetting the way I approached my day - turning my life from a task list to slowing down and enjoying and experiencing everything.

I use a slant head DE razor sent to me from Jimmy and my straight razors all the time, still nothing like using a wonderful badger brush and some fantastic soap with a beautiful aroma and shaving with a razor over 150 years old.

2024, 11 years now!

My first straight razor -- a Red Imp #133 6/8, for which I paid $49.88 to an eBay seller on 27 November 2006 (which proved to need honing, and was serviced by John Crowley, of the now-defunct "Shaving Shop"). TBH, it was, and remained, "too much razor" for me -- I always felt that looking at it was enough to draw blood. I ended-up selling it (IIRC, to an SRP or B&B member in South Africa). I never did develop a taste for full-hollow grinds.

You be a brave man starting out with a spike like that.

My first was a 6/8s Thiers Issard I bought new and didn't have a clue. This was before all these sites existed. I'm lucky I didn't slit my throat with it.

My first straight was a Gotta 4/8 Round point. After a few years of my noob honing it became a sharp letter opener.

This one was my Dad's and I'm pretty sure it was his father's. It was one of the first razors I ever shaved with and my first straight razor. J.A. Henckels 401. I shave with it usually on his birthday and on Father's Day for sure aside from its appearance in my rotation.



I have a number of shave related heirlooms of his...

https://sharprazorpalace.com/razors/...-heirloom.html