Greetings folks.
After lurking the straight razor department for almost a year i decided to introduce myself.
Mostly to get more knowledge for now, and who knows in the future i'll be able to help some others.
I got interested in shaving with the straight after seeing a vid where a guy made his own straight.
Yes i was making normal knives at the time. (i work in a steel mill)
Anyway i made the plunge and bought myself a dovo pakkawood red starter set with an omega boar brush.
A hanging strop, a pasted strop and some TOBS cedarwood creme
Started shaving the cheeks and started doing more and more as confidence with the blade grew.
My first shaves where ..... lets say quite irritating and left a lot to desire.
Probably due to lousy technique with shaving and stropping.
It didn't take long before i knew something was wrong. Apparently the SR never was really shave ready to begin with.
So i got myself coticule and plunged into the honing abyss as well.
As time went on and a lot of reading and testing was done i find myself having really nive shaves.
Up until the so called third pass. This thing seems to mystify me to no end.
I know it is probably my honing skill, but i feel like im getting there.
So now .... my razor has some wear and i'm eying a few others. Guess i've got something called RAD now
Anyway ..... guess i'm looking forward to get some answers and share some thoughts.
After lurking the straight razor department for almost a year i decided to introduce myself.
Mostly to get more knowledge for now, and who knows in the future i'll be able to help some others.
I got interested in shaving with the straight after seeing a vid where a guy made his own straight.
Yes i was making normal knives at the time. (i work in a steel mill)
Anyway i made the plunge and bought myself a dovo pakkawood red starter set with an omega boar brush.
A hanging strop, a pasted strop and some TOBS cedarwood creme
Started shaving the cheeks and started doing more and more as confidence with the blade grew.
My first shaves where ..... lets say quite irritating and left a lot to desire.
Probably due to lousy technique with shaving and stropping.
It didn't take long before i knew something was wrong. Apparently the SR never was really shave ready to begin with.
So i got myself coticule and plunged into the honing abyss as well.
As time went on and a lot of reading and testing was done i find myself having really nive shaves.
Up until the so called third pass. This thing seems to mystify me to no end.
I know it is probably my honing skill, but i feel like im getting there.
So now .... my razor has some wear and i'm eying a few others. Guess i've got something called RAD now
Anyway ..... guess i'm looking forward to get some answers and share some thoughts.
