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I received my 6/8 "German Hoppe" razor from ShavingShop today. It came well packaged, and it was wrapped in paper bearing Giesen & Forsthoff logos and "Timor" all over it, and the plastic coffin box...

Hmm. Good advice, but my main problem may be that I haven't mastered the art of changing hands yet. Hehe. I do most of the shaving with my right hand, stretching the skin with my left. Learning to...

Just shaved with the straight razor again today. Same prep and lather as last time, and shaved N-S, S-N and then did a pass across the grain in an oblique upward stroke. The cheeks were BBS after the...

Ok, just an update, since this thread seems to have come to deal more and more with my straight razor shaving progress.

I shaved with the straight razor again today, after stropping it about 30...

I tried shaving with the straight again yesterday. I stropped it, tried the sharpness with a stray hair I found in the bathroom, using the Hanging Hair Test. The razor made a "tink" sound when the...

I will continue to use the straight and see if my technique and the shave improves. My philosophy at the moment is to go slow, since it's new to me. Next time I may do two passes with it and see what...

Well, I made a strop by glueing the leather to a piece of balsa, and stropped the razor to the best of my ability, going slow and trying to keep both the point and the heel of the blade as well as...

Which side of the leather do you use for stropping, the skin side or the meat side? I've read about using the meat side for pasted paddle strops for stropping knives, but if you want to use one...

I don't have any smooth leather belts, and the largest piece of thick leather I have otherwise is only about a foot long. Is that long enough for a strop? Otherwise, is balsa wood possible to use as...

I guess I'll have to let the straight razor rest until I get me a strop, sometime in the future, then.

I recently bought a Wester Bros. Anchor Brand "Manganese Steel" straight razor, shave ready, from xChris in the classifieds here. Since I'm unemployed and don't have a lot of money to spare for...