Thread: first year with a straight

ahhh 2009 has gone quickly and my frist years with a straight razor has changed my way of doing things.the score. cuts 3 real cuts and too many weepers to count the worst cut took 4 days to heal. that was to my face but the real worst cut happened to my off hand , tought me to watch the razor or put it down. honing. this was a lot harder to learn than i expected.i have been making and sharpening knifes of better than 45 years. but this is a whole new ball game.now after honing some 40 razors , well i can do it but still have a way to go before i can get the job done as fast as lynn.the shave, good god in heaven who would of thought that shaving would turn out to be ....fun and that my mug could feel this good, like when i was 11.it has also made me a junk store junky. dont bother looking for straights in switzerland , i got them all. alll in all a great year

Grats on a year of shaving. I have been shaving for a year as well, and I must say I still am learning.

Have a good 2010.

Crom

I have been at it for a year as well. Always getting great shaves in the BBS or Super BBS category. It always depends on how good the edge is that day and how much time allocated for shaving.

Started out cheap and have since spent a few hundred to get all the great tools and I am happy I did.

My next step will be to do my own honing and restoration. I have to say that my pasted paddle strop really extended the life of my straights before they needed to be honed and is a worthy purchase.

Looking back, 2009 was my straight razor initiation year. I wish I got around to it several years earlier. SRP should be declared a Renaissance site.

Pabster

It's been a year for me too and I still consider myself a newbe. It's been slow as I've had to do it on the cheap which meant learning how to pick good razors from bad, how to make scales, honing, stopping, how to make lather, pre-shave prep and most important relearn how to shave. There's a world of difference between wet shaving with a DE and a str8. Been a fun year and learned a lot....hope to learn a lot more in the years to come. I have enjoyed most of it, there have been some frustrating moments when I didn't know what I was doing but with help from the great guys here at the SRP community all my questions were answered....the members here are the best.

It's about to turn a year for me, too. I've loved every minute of it. Learned a hell of a lot the past year, including the fact that I don't know a damned thing.

I've just past the one year mark also. January 2009 must have been a good year to take up straight razor shaving. I've learned a lot, but one of the main things I have learned is that there is still so much more to learn.

Close to 1 year and a half and still not any way near a satisfying level of skills though improving all the time. Great respect for you people who have been around for a while! Great fun

Congrats on your one year milestone. It's a good feeling knowing you have stuck it out in the learning curve. I just past a year myself in October. So I know how you feel. This is an awesome art. Good luck, and keep up the good work.

ahh yes many thanks to the great guys and gals at SRP. without there collective help it would of takin many more years to get where iam today.the day was when this art was passed on from father to son. however today with the times changing so fast, not much that we have learned as fathers is usefull to our sons and daughters.the part of this year i realy enjoyed was infecting my oldest son and us side by side shaving in the bathroom ... real guy stuff.

cutalot,
I tip my hat to you. That has got to be the coolest thing in the world doing something like that with your son, I can't get my sons to even talk str8 razors. Now my grandson who is 3 years old is a different subject. He holds the ends/handles of a jump rope, acts like he is stropping a razor then puts one to his face like he is shaving, just like he sees papaw do. I have future plans for him and three extremely scarce John Williams Damascus Sheffield razors I have already set aside for him. Thumps up to you for carrying on a tradition that has been all but forgotten.