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

**ethermantis** · 10-14-2009, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Milton Man

I was influence by a friend of my wife to look into feather straights...which lead me to oggle the classic shaving website where Lynn's video was up for sale. A lot of google searching later, I ended up at SRP, and had decided to go with a real straight over the feather. With the help of the fine folks here (at the start, most notably heavydutysg135) I successfully made the transition to the best shaves of my life.

Great thread! Thanks for starting it jleeg.

Mark

Hi - I grew up in Ottawa (moved to NYC for school and stayed 15 years - now living in VA)! I guess I'm just saying "hey"!

Julian

**Bruce** · 10-14-2009, 05:52 PM

Nope,

But it sure has worked as a greaser of the skids for the spending of more than a few dollars from time to time, and now and then, and again.

**mlynx** · 10-14-2009, 06:21 PM

Yes, although I had considered using a straight before, I hadn't known where to begin. The information here has been sufficient to get me started, my first razor arriving yesterday and soon to be shipped out for honing.

**fastfrankie** · 10-14-2009, 06:30 PM

No SRP wasn't the reason that I started to use a straight. I was talked into it by Icedog, and i'm glad that it happened.

**hornm** · 10-14-2009, 07:06 PM

No. But luckilly it's helped take a lot of the guess work out of the craft. Not to mention clearing up a lot of the mis-comceptions I started with.

**honedright** · 10-14-2009, 07:07 PM

Nope. I was shaving with a straight long before SRP existed.

**carnicero** · 10-14-2009, 07:23 PM

It helped a lot but the decision was already made.

**crankymoose** · 10-14-2009, 07:28 PM

I would have tried it but without SRP, and the yahoo message board also started by Lynn and mostly Lynn's video I would have never stuck with it, oh not to mention the first razor I used was my grandfathers Shumate which after at least 50 years of non use I sent it out to Lynn via Classic Shaving at the time for its first honing as I wanted to start off right, so yeah I owe a big thanks to SRP and of course Lynn.

**livingontheedge** · 10-14-2009, 08:05 PM

I had decided to try str8 shaving before discovering this forum and had the worst shave of my life, very bloody and I seemed to be pulling the hairs out rather than shave them. I believed that my new Dovo was actually shave ready, as stated on the coffin, so I went about discovering what I was doing wrong, thereby discovering SRP, this site is an invaluable resource and I doubt I would have stuck with my str8 were it not for the wisdom and patience of it's members. Also I doubt I would have tried some of the better soaps and creams, I now find myself thinking, before going to sleep, about my morning shave and which razor/cream I will be using and looking forward to it. In the past I thought of shaving as a chore, one I hated, but now I look forward to shaving and have shaved more in the past six weeks than in the year leading up my conversion (which the wife is VERY happy about). So to all the members and contributers of this forum thank you for all your help.
John

**zib** · 10-14-2009, 08:08 PM

For me, it was after the fact. I purchased my first str8 razor honed by Lynn, and in my quest for knowledge, I found SRP. It has been an indispensible wealth of information.
Everyone here was so helpful, that it quickly became an addiction....

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