Thread: How did you learn?

I learned how to shave from a number of sources, starting with talks with my father. I have never bought a shave ready razor so I started honing my own. In this regard, I did have the advantage of prior experience with other edged tools, and I don't find razor honing different in principle from putting a good edge on any tool.

In the mid 1980s I had a friend who owned and operated a barber shop that was a sort of hangout for a group of us. I began collecting straight razors and picking the brain of the 70 year old barber who worked for my friend. I learned to shave and hone after a fashion but gave it up shortly thereafter.

Coming back to it 25 years later I learned to shave from this wonderful forum and to hone from up close and personal tutoring by TheTopher and from telephone conversations with both Lynn and with Randydance. The SRP Wiki tutorials and the videos as well as a lot of practice. Truth is I am still learning most times I lay steel to stone.