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I just recieved a german steel boker straight razor. I shaved with it for the first time and ive decided i am never going back toa cartridge razor ever again
Nice video Eric. In my opinion good beginner size for razor is 7/8. These are easier to maneuver because of weight and size. You can see and feel where you have these. It is easier to cut with a smaller straight razor because they are lighter and you can put on more weight than necessary when shaving.
Kjk 7/8 is a good beginner size for a straight razor... and I like the weight as well. :) The lighter the straight razor is the more careful you have to be, because it feels like you need to add more pressure... but that's just a good way to get cut. Thanks for the great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) Take care! :) #Heart
I just reground a handforged 4 dollar razor into a wedge. The spine and the edge had terrible alignment so i took it to the 120 and flattened it out. In the process i ground deep into the uneven concave and even though the deepest parts of the convex are still visible, i find it to look more like a wedge now. I then took it up the usual grit progression i use for my kitchen and outdoor knives(1k naniwa,4k king, 8k and 12k naniwa, strop without compound) and got it to perform the hanging hair test. I shaved with a couple of times now and it is indeed so much better than a cartridge. And the sharpening is so much easier and faster compared to a knife with a big belly. I can't believe it took an gillette ad to look at my cartridge twice and raise some questions. Cost, environmental friendliness and no weird agenda behind it. Overall i must thank this ad, because now i shave better for less money.
Nice work Michael! ;) That's so cool you reground a hand-forged straight razor into a wedge... then using your usual knife honing progression from a 1k to 4k, to 8k and finishing on your 12k to sharpen it... Yeah Buddy! :) Isn't it interesting what can motivate us to look at alternatives to how we shave. Thanks for your great comment and for your encouraging story, and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day and take care! :) #Heart
Darn Erc, this video would have saved me a lot of money many moons ago 😃. This rabbit hole is getting very deep. Great video, enjoyed it a lot and down to the point. Keep up the good work.
Jeronimo saving money for beginners is what it's all about. :) That rabbit hole can get very deep very quickly... it's my hope that this will help others who are starting out and make straight razor shaving more accessible to all ;) thanks for the great comment and for the encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Eric you are great, excellent video and fantastic channel. I started using straights also with the help of your videos. My firsts were a Zy430 "no stain" and a grandslam, both are solid performers and gives great shaves but they are not made of stainless, like described on sites, in fact if you rub the blade (clean, free of oil) with a cotton fioc and cold bluing solution (buy it in a gun store or on the web) the steel will easily get blued. It is not possible to blue stainless steel, only carbon steel. Both families of steels, carbon and stainless have fantastic steels, heat treatment and processing method are also big variables. On an entry level carbon steel is a cost effective solution. Having said that I still like my grandslam and zy430, they are excellent choices to start and to keep.
KittRC 7 thanks so much for the information on bluing steels! ;) I have had some small rust problems in the past... I understood that stainless... truly means the steel will stainless... in other words it will rust less. I'm also very happy that you started straight razor shaving with the help of these videos and you started with both the ZY430 "no stain" and the ZY Grandslam. Great straight razors and are excellent choices to start with and they're great to have in the line-up when you get more straights. Do you have both carbon steel and stainless steel straights? If so how would you compare the shaves just look at the different steels? Thanks for the detailed explanation, great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) #Heart
Adventures In Wet Shaving 👍 I have much experience with blades, I am a knives active collector/user also. I have only carbon blades straights, the best that I have are Japanese made or Bökers / Solingen forged (all forged). Maybe in the future I will try a stainless but my best razors can cut arm hairs at mid air immediately after the last stone even before stropping so it can not be better than that. There is also the gold dollar 800 that should be made of stainless but I have not tried it or verified. Stainless is less sensitive to rust ; for edge retention it should have a high % of carbon to be competitive with the best carbon steels, there is also grain structure pattern and forging process boost the properties of the blade. There are many steels carbon/stainless and straights are a very specific application so this is for a mettallurgic expert. For maintenance I dry my straight after the shave and I coat it generously with a highly protective syntetic oil after the shave, I use a painting brush. Before the next shave it will be disinfected so the oil will not be a problem on the skin. Natural oils in generals protect less against rust.
Wow, you are amazing! :) KittRC 7 you have a very in-depth knowledge of the different types of steel... the Japanese made straights are fantastic... and you can't go wrong with Bökers Solingen German forged steel. Would having a high % of carbon in stainless steel make it more prone to rust? You have a fine routine for maintenance after shaving and before shaving. Thanks for help clarify the differences for me :) #Heart
Adventures In Wet Shaving Many thanks you are great too👍 Yes the more carbon there is in a steel the more it will rust but in a stainless there is also good amount of chromium so it will always be way more resistant than a carbon steel with similar % of carbon. For rust resistance is also very important the blade finish, from the best to the worst: 1 mirror polish (steel pores closed) 2 stone washing, fine satin finish 3 glass blasting, medium satin 4 bead blasting 5 sand blasting is terrible (steel pores open) rust paradise😆 If you have cronical problems of rust on a razor check the finish, it can have a rough spot, maybe not properly polished. There are some gentle (not abrasive) oxide removing products, like Sidol in Italy. And for polishing (abrasive, aggressive will change the blade finish⚠️) there are diamond pastes or simple car scratch removal creams. You can try them on other stuff to see how they change the finish. Try also different protective oils.
Fantastic information this kind of thing is so valuable... it hard to even know what questions to ask... much less where to find the answers. KittRC 7 thanks so much for all the help! :) #Heart
Great#SREFS Eric! One starting out Straight Razor Shaving will definitely know what kind of Razor to get & how to get a comfortable shaving edge if they hone their own Straight Razors like I did when I Started! Eric, Have a Great Friday & a Good Weekend My Friend! :) See you Sunday for the #SSOTD. :)
Jody it's all about starting out in the right direction, headed for a successful straight razor shave! ;) Thanks for the great comments and for the encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) Jody, Have a Great Friday and a Good Weekend My Friend! See you for the #SSOTD! :) #Heart
AAAUGAY so happy you found this video helpful! ;) Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for your great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day and take care, my friend! :) #Heart
Great idea and question cj18! ;) Yeah, Buddy let me see what I can put together for you! Thanks for your great idea and question, and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Great question Doug! :) IMO I like the CrOx over the Diamond spray, because to me the Diamond spray produces a more toothy edge compared to the smoother edge that the CrOx leaves. Hopefully that's helpful, please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for the great question and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Mike, you've got a couple of outstanding straight razors! ;) Yeah, Buddy your Gold Dollar 66 is great to learn how to hone and shave, and your Theirs Issard will be an absolute joy to shave with! Thanks for your great comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Hi Eric! I’ve been straight edge shaving for about two months now and having a great time. I have about seven razors now… LOL! Out of them all I must admit that I get the closest shave from my only shavette razor (Black Widow). But the disposable blade gets dull after about five shaves and the shape of the razor does not let me reach tight spots as easily my half hollow Gold Dollar Spanish point does. I purchased all the stones that you recommended- 1000, 3000, 8000, 1200, 1500, and strop and green stuff. But I have not tried to hone yet. So is it reasonable to expect that I will be able to get one of my Gold Dollar as sharp as my disposable Black Widow’s disposable blade? Thanks Eric keep up the great work!!! Robert
Robert first congrats on two months of straight edge shaving, well done! ;) Woo Buddy - High Five! :) Wow you now have 7 straight razors! That's great you can rotate through them and they should stay sharp for a long time! ;) Thanks for the great question, Robert! With your stones you should be able to get your Gold Dollar Straight Razor more then sharp enough to shave with... with that being said... your disposable blades are machine sharp making them more aggressive IMO... you should be able to get a more comfortable edge on your Gold Dollar with your stones. If you follow the honing process all the way through to stropping with the green Chrom Ox it will be close to machine sharp. Thanks for the great question and for the encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Great question Francisco! ;) I'm all for buying old vintage used straight razors. I enjoy shaving with them because of the workmanship and history of them. When you're looking for these old used straight razors try to get one with the widest blade possible. You'll get more life out of the razor. I like at least 6/8 of an inch to 13/16" that's a great size for an old and used straight razor. Here's a link to Episode 1 of my 2020 Shave Den Tour ruclips.net/video/IbJe6VOj3Ts/видео.html Where you'll see I've got many vintage straight razors. Look at the Magnetic Silver Steel, Finedge Ostiso, and the WR Humphreys & Co "The Haddon Brand" these are all good examples of the type of razors you're looking for buddy. Thanks for your great question and comment, and thanks for watching! Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
@@AdventuresInWetShaving well thanks mister; there's a Simmons Hardware 421 barber's pet i can put my dollar on... i think's a 5/8 ( or a 11/16 followin' wikipedia) , something like that. doesn't look in bad shape and it ain't that expensive, although gettin a Strop will be a challange. do you have any advices in how to get my new SR in good shape, even with not the actually right tools (at least for get me a shave before gettin a strop)?
Great question Francisco! ;) Find the widest leather belt you can and use the smooth leather side without the holes using X-Strokes. That will work fine for stropping! I've looked at the Simmons Hardware 421 barber's pet and the 5/8 would be a fine straight razor. Please let me know if you have any other questions, and let me know how you get along. #Heart
Опасная бритва - Brooklyn Продакшн it's nice to see you! :) Thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching my Friend! Thumbs UP and a #Heart! :) Have a good weekend! :)
Great questions Umar! ;) We use a belt or strop to straighten the edge before shaving using the smooth side of the leather, you can also somewhat refresh an edge with the fabric side of a strop using a Chrom Ox paste. We would need to sharpen a straight razor when it starts to pull for sharpening you will need a set of whetstone for that or you'll need to send your straight razor out. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for your great questions and thanks for watching! :) Have a great weekend, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Great question MrKockabilly! ;) Yeah, Buddy you are seeing the razor I'm holding reflecting from the mirror in front of me into the mirror finish on my Parker Best Silver Steel razor! Pretty cool right, that's a great caught. Thanks for your great question and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Great video Eric. I recommend any straight razor that's 6/8's or larger with a round or french point and for those who can't hone, I recommend talking to Anthony Esposito over on facebook or you can go here and get one off my friend Frank Misa that's shave ready: www.etsy.com/shop/STRIKEGOLDSHAVE Now I get better shaves since I strop less than I use to. I only do 10 round trips on my Vintage fire hose strop and I do the same amount on my horsehide strop when I use it.
Stephen a 6/8 or larger straight razor would be a good choice, but nothing smaller IMO :) and I like your point choices as well. Anthony Esposito on Facebook knows how to put a great edge on a straight razor, and I've heard Frank Misa knows his stuff too. Great suggestion using the Vintage fire hose strop along with a leather strop! :) Thanks for the great comment and suggestions, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Honing stones can get expensive Jeff! ;) Yeah, Buddy that's when you do it! Thanks for your great comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Can't believe you are still holding on to George's stone (instead of sending it on to Jody or I). 11. The look on your wife's face as you wield a blade with reckless abandon, and the look on both as you join the pink lather club when ambition overtakes talent! 12. An interest in soaps at an almost molecular level, having studiously avoiding them for the preceding years except as a necessary evil to be endured. It might be helpful to keep a shave diary, so you know what soaps and blades you used as well as when you honed them and how you treated them. Here's an example from mine: Sun 3/4 86 Dovo, SV 2 pass DFS 25 pms 25 FeOx 10098 no cuts or alum burn. Because what will get you as a beginner is not knowing when the shave is deteriorating because the blade is becoming dull and when it's just down to a bad day and poor preparation or technique. T
T a shave dairy sounds like a great idea! :) Please explain the abbreviations for me it's very interesting... :) Thanks for the great comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good weekend my friend! :) #Heart
shave 86 with a Dovo and SV soap. pms=poorman's strop from Whipped Dog - it's felt on the back and i use that to dry my blades after a shave. 10098 - well, you know what that is. i try to keep track of my post-shave routine so when i notice a blade get a bit notchy i can refer back and see when and what i did last time. The diamond paste or spray is an interesting question - being as i was cheap and the stockist was out of diamond spray, i went with iron oxide on a balsa strop as part of my post shave razor maintenance and have stuck with it since; the edges are maybe not as sharp as they could be, but it prolongs time between needing to use the stones. i note whether i cut myself or not for no reason other than it's what i did everytime for about the first 17 shaves. It's a pity i am learning things i wish i knew aged 20 so much later! T
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I just recieved a german steel boker straight razor. I shaved with it for the first time and ive decided i am never going back toa cartridge razor ever again
@@demoticwhippzzztv very cool! Boker is a fantastic straight razor! I'm with you I'm never going back! Yeah Buddy! ;) #Heart
Nice video Eric. In my opinion good beginner size for razor is 7/8. These are easier to maneuver because of weight and size. You can see and feel where you have these.
It is easier to cut with a smaller straight razor because they are lighter and you can put on more weight than necessary when shaving.
Kjk 7/8 is a good beginner size for a straight razor... and I like the weight as well. :) The lighter the straight razor is the more careful you have to be, because it feels like you need to add more pressure... but that's just a good way to get cut. Thanks for the great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) Take care! :) #Heart
I just reground a handforged 4 dollar razor into a wedge. The spine and the edge had terrible alignment so i took it to the 120 and flattened it out. In the process i ground deep into the uneven concave and even though the deepest parts of the convex are still visible, i find it to look more like a wedge now. I then took it up the usual grit progression i use for my kitchen and outdoor knives(1k naniwa,4k king, 8k and 12k naniwa, strop without compound) and got it to perform the hanging hair test. I shaved with a couple of times now and it is indeed so much better than a cartridge. And the sharpening is so much easier and faster compared to a knife with a big belly. I can't believe it took an gillette ad to look at my cartridge twice and raise some questions. Cost, environmental friendliness and no weird agenda behind it. Overall i must thank this ad, because now i shave better for less money.
Nice work Michael! ;) That's so cool you reground a hand-forged straight razor into a wedge... then using your usual knife honing progression from a 1k to 4k, to 8k and finishing on your 12k to sharpen it... Yeah Buddy! :) Isn't it interesting what can motivate us to look at alternatives to how we shave. Thanks for your great comment and for your encouraging story, and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day and take care! :) #Heart
Darn Erc, this video would have saved me a lot of money many moons ago 😃. This rabbit hole is getting very deep. Great video, enjoyed it a lot and down to the point. Keep up the good work.
Jeronimo saving money for beginners is what it's all about. :) That rabbit hole can get very deep very quickly... it's my hope that this will help others who are starting out and make straight razor shaving more accessible to all ;) thanks for the great comment and for the encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Thanks for your job!
Tomcatspa thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Thanks for your great work, Eric!
Miguel thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Great idea for a video. 😁
Abe thanks for the great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) #Heart
Excellent video, Eric!
George thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good weekend my friend! :) #Heart
Fantastic video Eric.
Ahmet thanks for the great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Eric you are great, excellent video and fantastic channel.
I started using straights also with the help of your videos.
My firsts were a Zy430 "no stain" and a grandslam, both are solid performers and gives great shaves but they are not made of stainless, like described on sites, in fact if you rub the blade (clean, free of oil) with a cotton fioc and cold bluing solution (buy it in a gun store or on the web) the steel will easily get blued.
It is not possible to blue stainless steel, only carbon steel.
Both families of steels, carbon and stainless have fantastic steels, heat treatment and processing method are also big variables.
On an entry level carbon steel is a cost effective solution.
Having said that I still like my grandslam and zy430, they are excellent choices to start and to keep.
KittRC 7 thanks so much for the information on bluing steels! ;) I have had some small rust problems in the past... I understood that stainless... truly means the steel will stainless... in other words it will rust less. I'm also very happy that you started straight razor shaving with the help of these videos and you started with both the ZY430 "no stain" and the ZY Grandslam. Great straight razors and are excellent choices to start with and they're great to have in the line-up when you get more straights. Do you have both carbon steel and stainless steel straights? If so how would you compare the shaves just look at the different steels? Thanks for the detailed explanation, great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) #Heart
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I have much experience with blades, I am a knives active collector/user also.
I have only carbon blades straights, the best that I have are Japanese made or Bökers / Solingen forged (all forged).
Maybe in the future I will try a stainless but my best razors can cut arm hairs at mid air immediately after the last stone even before stropping so it can not be better than that.
There is also the gold dollar 800 that should be made of stainless but I have not tried it or verified.
Stainless is less sensitive to rust ; for edge retention it should have a high % of carbon to be competitive with the best carbon steels, there is also grain structure pattern and forging process boost the properties of the blade.
There are many steels carbon/stainless and straights are a very specific application so this is for a mettallurgic expert.
For maintenance I dry my straight after the shave and I coat it generously with a highly protective syntetic oil after the shave, I use a painting brush.
Before the next shave it will be disinfected so the oil will not be a problem on the skin.
Natural oils in generals protect less against rust.
Wow, you are amazing! :) KittRC 7 you have a very in-depth knowledge of the different types of steel... the Japanese made straights are fantastic... and you can't go wrong with Bökers Solingen German forged steel. Would having a high % of carbon in stainless steel make it more prone to rust? You have a fine routine for maintenance after shaving and before shaving. Thanks for help clarify the differences for me :) #Heart
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Many thanks you are great too👍
Yes the more carbon there is in a steel the more it will rust but in a stainless there is also good amount of chromium so it will always be way more resistant than a carbon steel with similar % of carbon.
For rust resistance is also very important the blade finish, from the best to the worst:
1 mirror polish (steel pores closed)
2 stone washing, fine satin finish
3 glass blasting, medium satin
4 bead blasting
5 sand blasting is terrible (steel pores open) rust paradise😆
If you have cronical problems of rust on a razor check the finish, it can have a rough spot, maybe not properly polished.
There are some gentle (not abrasive) oxide removing products, like Sidol in Italy.
And for polishing (abrasive, aggressive will change the blade finish⚠️) there are diamond pastes or simple car scratch removal creams.
You can try them on other stuff to see how they change the finish.
Try also different protective oils.
Fantastic information this kind of thing is so valuable... it hard to even know what questions to ask... much less where to find the answers. KittRC 7 thanks so much for all the help! :) #Heart
Great#SREFS Eric! One starting out Straight Razor Shaving will definitely know what kind of Razor to get & how to get a comfortable shaving edge if they hone their own Straight Razors like I did when I Started! Eric, Have a Great Friday & a Good Weekend My Friend! :)
See you Sunday for the #SSOTD. :)
Jody it's all about starting out in the right direction, headed for a successful straight razor shave! ;) Thanks for the great comments and for the encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) Jody, Have a Great Friday and a Good Weekend My Friend! See you for the #SSOTD! :) #Heart
Great informative video!
AAAUGAY so happy you found this video helpful! ;) Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for your great comment and encouragement, and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day and take care, my friend! :) #Heart
i would love a guide "how to buy used or old straight r." and what can be restored
Great idea and question cj18! ;) Yeah, Buddy let me see what I can put together for you!
Thanks for your great idea and question, and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Maybe you did a video on this but in your opinion, CrOx versus Diamond spray?
Great question Doug! :) IMO I like the CrOx over the Diamond spray, because to me the Diamond spray produces a more toothy edge compared to the smoother edge that the CrOx leaves. Hopefully that's helpful, please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for the great question and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Nice video Eric
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Matti thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching my friend! :) Take care and have a good day! :) #Heart
I have a gold dollar 66 and a Theirs-Issard Evide Sonnat Extra Hollow 6/8
Mike, you've got a couple of outstanding straight razors! ;) Yeah, Buddy your Gold Dollar 66 is great to learn how to hone and shave, and your Theirs Issard will be an absolute joy to shave with!
Thanks for your great comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Hi Eric! I’ve been straight edge shaving for about two months now and having a great time. I have about seven razors now… LOL! Out of them all I must admit that I get the closest shave from my only shavette razor (Black Widow). But the disposable blade gets dull after about five shaves and the shape of the razor does not let me reach tight spots as easily my half hollow Gold Dollar Spanish point does. I purchased all the stones that you recommended- 1000, 3000, 8000, 1200, 1500, and strop and green stuff. But I have not tried to hone yet. So is it reasonable to expect that I will be able to get one of my Gold Dollar as sharp as my disposable Black Widow’s disposable blade? Thanks Eric keep up the great work!!!
Robert
Robert first congrats on two months of straight edge shaving, well done! ;) Woo Buddy - High Five! :) Wow you now have 7 straight razors! That's great you can rotate through them and they should stay sharp for a long time! ;)
Thanks for the great question, Robert! With your stones you should be able to get your Gold Dollar Straight Razor more then sharp enough to shave with... with that being said... your disposable blades are machine sharp making them more aggressive IMO... you should be able to get a more comfortable edge on your Gold Dollar with your stones. If you follow the honing process all the way through to stropping with the green Chrom Ox it will be close to machine sharp.
Thanks for the great question and for the encouragement, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
Adventures In Wet Shaving Thanks 1 million Eric! I will keep you posted! Peace!!!
what you think about investing on an old straight razor? here in south america is hard to find brand new so, tthe best you can get is old used stuff
Great question Francisco! ;) I'm all for buying old vintage used straight razors. I enjoy shaving with them because of the workmanship and history of them. When you're looking for these old used straight razors try to get one with the widest blade possible. You'll get more life out of the razor. I like at least 6/8 of an inch to 13/16" that's a great size for an old and used straight razor. Here's a link to Episode 1 of my 2020 Shave Den Tour ruclips.net/video/IbJe6VOj3Ts/видео.html Where you'll see I've got many vintage straight razors. Look at the Magnetic Silver Steel, Finedge Ostiso, and the WR Humphreys & Co "The Haddon Brand" these are all good examples of the type of razors you're looking for buddy.
Thanks for your great question and comment, and thanks for watching! Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
@@AdventuresInWetShaving well thanks mister; there's a Simmons Hardware 421 barber's pet i can put my dollar on... i think's a 5/8 ( or a 11/16 followin' wikipedia) , something like that. doesn't look in bad shape and it ain't that expensive, although gettin a Strop will be a challange. do you have any advices in how to get my new SR in good shape, even with not the actually right tools (at least for get me a shave before gettin a strop)?
Great question Francisco! ;) Find the widest leather belt you can and use the smooth leather side without the holes using X-Strokes. That will work fine for stropping! I've looked at the Simmons Hardware 421 barber's pet and the 5/8 would be a fine straight razor. Please let me know if you have any other questions, and let me know how you get along. #Heart
@@AdventuresInWetShaving Ohh! great advice! thanx a lot! pretty excited to get on shavin' old fashion way ;) its ecological too!
Yeah Buddy! ;) #Heart
Hello ) Nice vid my Friend ! Thumbs UP! 19
Опасная бритва - Brooklyn Продакшн it's nice to see you! :) Thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching my Friend! Thumbs UP and a #Heart! :) Have a good weekend! :)
Do we sharpen the blade on that belt? Or the razor itself? I'm confused why and how we'd sharpen a razor.
Great questions Umar! ;) We use a belt or strop to straighten the edge before shaving using the smooth side of the leather, you can also somewhat refresh an edge with the fabric side of a strop using a Chrom Ox paste. We would need to sharpen a straight razor when it starts to pull for sharpening you will need a set of whetstone for that or you'll need to send your straight razor out. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks for your great questions and thanks for watching! :) Have a great weekend, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
3:26 just curious how the reflection still shows you holding the razor
Great question MrKockabilly! ;) Yeah, Buddy you are seeing the razor I'm holding reflecting from the mirror in front of me into the mirror finish on my Parker Best Silver Steel razor! Pretty cool right, that's a great caught.
Thanks for your great question and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Great video Eric. I recommend any straight razor that's 6/8's or larger with a round or french point and for those who can't hone, I recommend talking to Anthony Esposito over on facebook or you can go here and get one off my friend Frank Misa that's shave ready: www.etsy.com/shop/STRIKEGOLDSHAVE
Now I get better shaves since I strop less than I use to. I only do 10 round trips on my Vintage fire hose strop and I do the same amount on my horsehide strop when I use it.
Stephen a 6/8 or larger straight razor would be a good choice, but nothing smaller IMO :) and I like your point choices as well. Anthony Esposito on Facebook knows how to put a great edge on a straight razor, and I've heard Frank Misa knows his stuff too. Great suggestion using the Vintage fire hose strop along with a leather strop! :) Thanks for the great comment and suggestions, and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart
buy honing stuff if you find your dedicated
Honing stones can get expensive Jeff! ;) Yeah, Buddy that's when you do it!
Thanks for your great comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good day, take care and stay safe my friend! :) #Heart
Can't believe you are still holding on to George's stone (instead of sending it on to Jody or I).
11. The look on your wife's face as you wield a blade with reckless abandon, and the look on both as you join the pink lather club when ambition overtakes talent!
12. An interest in soaps at an almost molecular level, having studiously avoiding them for the preceding years except as a necessary evil to be endured.
It might be helpful to keep a shave diary, so you know what soaps and blades you used as well as when you honed them and how you treated them. Here's an example from mine:
Sun 3/4 86 Dovo, SV 2 pass DFS 25 pms 25 FeOx 10098 no cuts or alum burn.
Because what will get you as a beginner is not knowing when the shave is deteriorating because the blade is becoming dull and when it's just down to a bad day and poor preparation or technique.
T
T a shave dairy sounds like a great idea! :) Please explain the abbreviations for me it's very interesting... :)
Thanks for the great comment and thanks for watching! :) Have a good weekend my friend! :) #Heart
shave 86 with a Dovo and SV soap. pms=poorman's strop from Whipped Dog - it's felt on the back and i use that to dry my blades after a shave. 10098 - well, you know what that is. i try to keep track of my post-shave routine so when i notice a blade get a bit notchy i can refer back and see when and what i did last time.
The diamond paste or spray is an interesting question - being as i was cheap and the stockist was out of diamond spray, i went with iron oxide on a balsa strop as part of my post shave razor maintenance and have stuck with it since; the edges are maybe not as sharp as they could be, but it prolongs time between needing to use the stones.
i note whether i cut myself or not for no reason other than it's what i did everytime for about the first 17 shaves. It's a pity i am learning things i wish i knew aged 20 so much later!
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Wow, very cool T! :) You are on top of it that's fantastic, thanks! ;) #Heart
Great video Eric.
Mehmet thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching my friend! :) #Heart