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Miss a day - are you crazy??!! :eek:

It's bad enough only being able to shave once a day as it is! :roflmao

Well the irritation is less today than it was yesterday, so I'll either miss a day...

A bit of an update.

I've now used only my straight razor for the last 4 days, and I feel like I'm slowly starting to get the hang of it. I started doing 3 passes per day, but have dropped down to...

Have you been in my house??! The scary thing is I have most of the things you mention above already, though a lot of it I had already before I discovered straight razors. :roflmao

I did just add...

Ok some success at last. I did the following on my hone:

4K 8K
10 15
1 5
1 5
1 10

Then about 40 very light passes on the leather side of the strop only, paying attentention to...

Ok that's great, I'll skip the canvas for now and just use 30 strokes on the leather side after i've finished on the hone.

Thanks guys. :)

Ok I'll give that a try tonight. But after I've honed it how many strokes on the strop should I do, and should I use both canvas and leather sides or just the leather?

Thanks :)

By the way if anyone can give me some quick answers to the above ASAP (today) it would really be appreciated. I'm going to my lesson at Trumpers tomorrow so I'd like to get my Bismarck as sharp as...

Thanks guys. I wouldn't say I'm afraid to try honing, but I'm worried about screwing up my edge as I learn. I'm trying to glean as much info as possible from watching Lynn's DVD and reading the...

Thanks guys. I guess I'm lucky living not too far from Trumpers, I looked around for any barbers who do lessons and they were the only one I could find in the UK (so far). Someone on B&B took this...

Ah ok, I'll see if I can get the nick out before trying to shave with it again - though I suspect I'll be left with a 2/8 razor if I manage to get it out. :roflmao

Hi folks,

I've posted a few times on here already but haven't introduced myself as yet, I couldn't see a newbies introduction forum so apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place.

I...