Great! I was looking locally and couldn't find anything. Figured maybe a smoking shop would have something but missed them somehow. Oh well, I'm very happy with the service and response from my order with westcoastshaving - Ordered late Friday afternoon, had it in my mailbox Monday morning. Prices were most likely better than I could have gotten here anyway. I'm in the same area - CVS and Walgreens both have Williams, Walgreens has VDH. Several Bath & Body stores around the area - I just picked up the C.O. Bigelow shave cream from them for $10 same size and price as Proraso. On third day of trying that and it's working great so far.
welcome Welcome to TSD. from one newbie to another stick to one brand of soap that lathers well and one razor.Try each blade from sample pack and use each for a week, changing blades as necessary I found I wore out blades faster because my technique was bad at first. Thats why I say stay with one razorto learn your technique,as for brushes I started out with a vdh brush from wal-mart it worked but I just received my semogue brushes(1305 and 2000)from vintage scent and right out of the box made my vdh sulk and cry in the corner. my point is get a good brush and you will learn a good lather quickly. (thx tieste and truckman on the semogue thread!!). Anyway enjoy your shaves!
Great advice! I try to recommend sticking with one soap (or cream) and one razor, too, when first starting out. It really helps things come together quicker having the consistency. (and you're welcome jasonlju11! psst...click the big green letters in my sig)
So its will probably be a new razor. I would also suggest trying vintage razors as well. Great advice, Jason. :happy096
Wow it is great to have a place to checkout razors, etc. Here I cannot find a place even if it exists! Nothing like Yellow Pages to lookup shaving equipment. Only word of mouth or chance discovery to find anything.
Come on in...the water's fine! Prepare yourself for a whole host of Acquisition Disorders. :shocked003 Welcome to the Shave Den.
OK, stick with 1 razor & soap to start. Same for brushes? So many of you are saying great things about the Semogue I'm thinking about getting the 1305 (unless somebody wants to sell me their horn handled one?) -- thoughts about sampling brushes or sticking with one while getting started?
Stick with one. Like a razor, get comfortable with it. Get to know it. Then, if you get one or more other brushes you can better appreciate what you want in that new brush and how it may differ from your original brush (both positively and negatively). Good luck with those shaves.
I concur with Freddy. Each brush is going to be different at building lather. So if you start off with more than one brush, you're essentially doing the same as having one brush and mulitple creams/soaps.... 1 Brush, 1 Razor, 1 Soap (or cream)....get a blade sample pack, but only stick with 1 pack at a time.... don't change blade brands every few days or anything...unless of course you can tell immediately if the blade won't work for you...
Welcome from another new guy! I hadn't considered smoke shops--to me they're places to be avoided for the most part. Does the law allow smoking in one? I dislike the smell of cigar and cigarette smoke and recently found out I'm allergic to tobacco on top of that. But there's a smoke shop in Chillicothe I could check out... Cheers, Tom
