Greetings from an SRP refugee. Was quite active there for a few years, until the curtain fell.
Received and, I hope, gave lots of good help there.
I took up straight razors for the sense of self-sufficiency and control. About the same time, I was changing my livelihood from white-collar to blue-collar, also to gain a different sense of the world. A sense of greater accountability, of greater utility.
That move was the best I could have made, financially as well as emotionally. And with my feelings of self-sufficiency and control (over tools, materials, outcomes, and my time) so well met, the need for the daily straight razor shave diminished. I backslid to shower-shaving with a disposable.
It's time to slow back down, do the meditative careful rituals of mixing lather, stropping, honing as necessary, all the good stuff.
So here I am, looking to rejoin a community. Would love to hear from some of my old SRP friends, if they're here. Carl from Australia? Redlather? Anyone?
Received and, I hope, gave lots of good help there.
I took up straight razors for the sense of self-sufficiency and control. About the same time, I was changing my livelihood from white-collar to blue-collar, also to gain a different sense of the world. A sense of greater accountability, of greater utility.
That move was the best I could have made, financially as well as emotionally. And with my feelings of self-sufficiency and control (over tools, materials, outcomes, and my time) so well met, the need for the daily straight razor shave diminished. I backslid to shower-shaving with a disposable.
It's time to slow back down, do the meditative careful rituals of mixing lather, stropping, honing as necessary, all the good stuff.
So here I am, looking to rejoin a community. Would love to hear from some of my old SRP friends, if they're here. Carl from Australia? Redlather? Anyone?
...although I have a few '
“What is elegance? [shaving soap, brush, str8 razor] and water”! Sir Cecil Beaton
