April 2017 30 Day Rule/Focus Pix & Discussion

Wow. Glad you guys are around to keep me from killing myself. (The irony of that statement is unbelievable). This is something I never would have imagined. I'll ask the guy I bought it from and then figure out where to go from there. If it's not honed I will have more questions... Actually if it is honed, I'll have more questions, they'll just be different.

 

I love Bing Bang Theory! My best friend IS a physisist!

 

Here is the response I got from the seller...

I bought it from SRD, and all of their razors come ready to use. You might want to have someone take a look at it. But every straight from SRD is supposed to come honed and ready to use. I only used it twice, and don't know much about straights, so I couldn't attest to it, but it shaved me fine even with my lack of experience.

Thoughts? Concerns? Any way I can check this on my own?

 

No one wants you to cut yourself on a dull blade. Use a sharp one!
Look into the Hanging Hair Test. You've seen the barber splitting a single hair? Find a piece of (red) hair and see if while it's hanging down, the razor is sharp enough to cut it with only the weight of the hair to hold the lower end. Next is (carefully) shaving your forearm.
And disregard everything I just told you. A Pro Honer will speak up with True Knowledge shortly.

 

Lynn over at SRD is a master honer, as long at the seller didn't ruin the edge you should be good. Did you get a strop too ?

 

Nope, haven't gotten that far yet. I figured I'd just buy the thing while the price was right and before I thought too much about dragging a sharp menacing piece of metal within millimeters of my jugular vein. Any and all suggestions and/or educational comments are welcome. As demonstrated previously, obnoxious, ridiculous and absurd comments are also welcome.

 

It cleared out my forearm hairs pretty easily. Unfortunately I don't have a hair long enough to drop on it until I get home to the girls (unless one of you was planning to send the redheaded stewardess over here to help with the project).

 

How's PIF pricing suit you? I need to get those premium soap samples headed your way. I'll add a Whipped Dog Poorman's strop to the package. It's in very good condition considering it was my first one. Don't let my spare coming your way stop you from shopping a nice one. This is a good unit to learn stropping. Should you invest in a Drygulch Strop the nicking needs to be done on a lesser piece.

 

Wow, that'd be awesome! Thanks! Let me at least PM you my UPS account # tomorrow so you don't have to pay to ship it out.

 

By the way, it goes without saying that if I figure out what I'm doing, get up my nerve, become successful at straight shaving, and stick with it (several big ifs), a strop from @Drygulch would be in order and instantly become a prized possession.

 

Razor: Timeless SB 0.95, w/ TRH5 Dimpled
Blade: Personna Star (4) Made in Great Britain
Brush: El Druida Ebony Zebra w/Manchurian
Soap: Route 66 Cavendish
Aftershave: Floid Blue
boise Mudworks bowl Blue (left hand)




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Great outdoor pic Doug. I would've been worried the brush and razor were going for a swim. Very cool looking shaving bowl. It couldn't have been easy being left handed in the Marines during your time. It was bad enough for me at Ft. Benning in the 80s. I still recall all of us wrong handers going to one side of the range.

 

Thanks Clint. If the razor and brush went for a swim I would have also. When I was in the Marines I was right handed. I turns out that I had made a mistake thinking I was left handed.

 

Thank you Charlie.

 

I know how that goes. I am right handed but left eye dominant. So I can shoot pistols and rifles both right and left handed. I just prefer to shoot a rifle left handed for longer ranges and when it really counts.

 

In Korea everything is overpriced so when I bought the AdP it seemed reasonable. The only things cheap in Seoul are cigarettes, beer, soju (think rice vodka), sushi rolls and taxis. Glad I could help The Italian economy. In return I hope you bought a Samsung phone and Hyundai car which oddly enough cost more than anywhere else.

 

Fantastic, what a joy to live in such a beautiful place.

 

Thanks guys