Thread: Was SRP a signifcant factor in your taking up the SR?

Originally Posted by jleeg

Was this site a substantial factor in your decision to take up straight razor shaving? Clearly there are many factors that affect our predisposition to do something like this. My guess is, that for many or most of us, this site and its resources pushed us over the edge (happily so in my case).

If no, were you already SR shaving?

I presume Lynn will be happy to see how this site has influenced this band of brothers (and sisters)!

No I wanted to SR shave from the get go. I just wanted some information. After reading articles from Classicshaving, I read the info here. Boy was my work cut out for me from hundreds of threads to wiki articles. I was committed so I didn't care how much I needed to learn.

Anyway, SRP/SRD was significant factor in me spending more money than I'd liked. I've few disorders and I'm sure most if not majority of you do as well. It's just something we have to accept in this wonderful art of straight razor shaving.

That said, I can't stress enough how awesome the community here is as well as camaraderie.

I had already decided to take up shaving with a straight before discovering SRP. However I think I can say I very well might have given up by now if I hadn't found this site!

Gentlemen,

I had wanted to shave with a straight razor for longer than I can remember. One day I decided to fulfill that dream and began.

It was some time before I discovered SRP. I was fortunate to find the site, because here I was in the company of gentlemen who were masters of the art and craft of straight razor shaving. They were also generous and patient teachers.

Best of all, I discovered the noblest of all the straight razor shavers: my shave guru Lynn.

So, no, SRP was not a significant factor in my taking up the straight razor. Perhaps it would have been had I known about it earlier. Since then, however, SRP has been significant in my education as a straight razor pilgrim.

It also has been home.

Regards,

Obie

i wanted to use a SR before i found the site and even ordered one, but the first razor that got to me was from a member of this forum and with out this site i probable would not have actually kept up with the straight cause i would not have know anything that i know now

-dan-

I attribute my start, and most of what I have learned to the posts here. Was brush and DE shaving for 20 years. Thought there was no reason to try a straight. Stumbled across Badger and Blade...was fascinated but then found this site. Was sold!!

With SRP being such a wonderful site, with great helpful members, I wish I could give all of you the credit for turning me over to straight razor shaving.

I have wanted to use a straight, ever since, even before I had started growing peach fuzz on my chin. I don't know why I never took it up before, but after spending 15 years of perfecting cartridge shaving, and being able to get BBS shaves, I was still left with an eerie empty feeling in my morning routine. Thats when I knew I could not put off straights any longer.

Two months ago I plugged in straight razor forums into Google, not expecting much, I then became a member of three sites. After spending just a few minutes on this one, I let the other by the wayside and haven't returned to them yet.

Originally I thought I would come on here get a few razor ideas, then cut and run, out of the fear, of the crap that seems to plague so many other forums. SRP has shown me what a good forum is and because of that,(even though SRP was not a factor in me taking up straight shaving), you probably most likely kept me from giving it up.

SRP has been the only factor in me picking up a (dearly needed) new hobby, that is collecting and restoring straight razors. I am fairly certain this is something that I would have not done or even know how to do with out you.

Thank you all
nate

Edit: By the way, since picking up straight razor shaving the eerie empty feeling has gone, and is replaced with another feeling that I can only best compare to, what might be considered, a meditative type feeling.

I probably would have started anyway, but I'm not sure I would have stuck with it very long without the support from the site. Thanks one and all. And as others have stated, it has helped me spend a lot more money. Ironic, since I thought I'd be spending less. That's OK. No regrets!

The info I have received here from my fellow SR shavers has been indispensible.

For myself, it was probably the only factor. The Workshop inspired me to restore an old razor and since it was SRD's honed, I haven't looked back.

no I was shaving for years before I discovered SRP buy it has helped me to unlearn some of the mistakes I have made over the years!