@slim6596 Just contact me when your ready.
What do you need help with?W
Will do and thanks again.
Research continues.....
What do you need help with?
Ok I can help. Why don’t we switch to private messages abd when you see something you like send me the link and I’ll give you my opinion of it. Your welcome to email me as well.
I may take you up on that extremely generous offer, sir.
Slash, I'm using a Merkur 3 piece DE, not sure of the model but it has a longer handle and closed comb(Feather blade). I use a brush in a metal shave bowl that I preheat with hot water (also soaking my brush in it). I've been bouncing back and forth between cremes and soaps, tending more towards soap. It just seems to last longer in my dopp kit. Most days I shave WTG then XTG and call it good. When I'm home, off the road, I may add a ATG pass for my wife's sake.
Started out wet shaving in the mid to late 70s with dad's hand me down Gillette DE. Came back to it for the usual reasons: save money long term, face and neck irritation no matter what I tried. Once I found out that it was the store bought goop and the multiple blade monstrosity lurking in my kit causing the problem instead of being the solution, I pitched all that and here I am.
......wow. I feel like a kid looking forward to Christmas now.I’ll pif @slim6596 a razor, send me a mailing address. It will have a jnat edge on it, so when it gets dull, which could be fairly quickly learning to shave and strop, have Scott put a coti edge on it. You’ll get to try two different classic edges.
Get a beginner’s strop or a poor man’s strop from Tony Miller. You could also just get a piece of leather from Tandy and lay it in the edge of a table and use it like a paddle strop.
First order of business: leather strop. Next: gauze and tourniquets.