I'm trying to get into straight razor shaving, I bought a Dovo Best Quality a couple months ago along with a Tony Miller strop and some Spyderco hones. To this point I had yet to be able to even get a presentable shave, I wasn't cutting myself to shreds, but I had to finish each shave with a DE before I could think of going out in public. Last week I bought a vintage Genco from Leighton, got it on Saturday and had my first shave. Not quite DFS, but good enough to go out in public without looking like an idiot. Woohoo, now I know I have a piece I can focus on improving technique on, while I get better at honing my other razor to a true shave ready state. When I was rinsing the razor I accidentally bumped it against the faucet just a hair. I thought I had hit the spine and thought nothing of it until I went to strop it this morning. Stropping on the lined seemed ok, then when I put it on the latigo the razor scratched the latigo! Upon closer examination I had chipped a blade that I got one shave out of! Great, now I get to learn how to hone out a chip. I'm starting to think straights may not be for me.
Maybe this is a sign
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Sorry to hear that, how bad is the chip? Send it back and if its not too bad, I'll get it out for ya.
No don't leave the straight realm!!!
Suffer though it. It takes a while of looking like the unibomber before things start to click. Eventually it stops feeling like work and starts to feel like fun.
Suffer though it. It takes a while of looking like the unibomber before things start to click. Eventually it stops feeling like work and starts to feel like fun.
Bill, I will admit ... you gotta want it to stick with straight shaving. Might I recommend putting your hones away for a while, so you can focus on just shaving and stropping.
If you don't stick with it how will you impress all the ladies with your skills?
(btw, keep practicing, ladies like scars anyhow, they're manly)
(btw, keep practicing, ladies like scars anyhow, they're manly)
Everybody drops a straight. It takes a specific way of holding it. At first you're so focused on getting it to shave that you end up dropping it.
Find someone to hone it, or try yourself if your feeling patient.
Find someone to hone it, or try yourself if your feeling patient.
