Hi Geo. Love your channel and your store. I recently became a repeat customer of yours and I can't say enough good things about your business. The turnaround times on orders are second to none. Your price points are excellent and, more often than not, beat out much larger competitors. I enjoy all of the information you present in each video. I also enjoy seeing razors from your personal collection. The fact that you link the products you use directly to your website has been incredibly helpful. I have a question; has any manufacturer ever produce a safety razor that takes two double edged razors? Like perhaps a razor in which the blades are stacked on top of one another? Not really looking to buy anything like that, was just curious and I know for a fact you would be the right person to ask. Either way, keep making the videos and thank you for running such a great business.
Geo, you're the man. Thank you for demonstrating to some of these guys who go crazy with this stuff that in fact all you need is a few basic things to maintain any razor. So many guys are convinced you need some extensive set of 12 stones and 4 strops that you have to meticulously go through one by one then bless it with the blood of a red Heffer at half-moon on third Sunday of the month before it's "actually sharp."
Hi i just start to shaving this way iam shaving this way for 3 months and a like too tell me what shaving machine is better too use for a bigginer or soap or cream or what other products too use for a bigginer and i like the price minimum thank you
9:10 He doesn't mention it but here, where Geo wipes the blade, is actually a very important step as you don't want to contaminate the leather side with chromium oxide.
I am French living in japan and last year it was my first time to America, for business and it was at Chicago, but my hotel was at elk grove, I saw shave nation is not so far so I would to go but I couldn’t I will go to Chicago every 2 years and I hope I can go to your shop next year, I want to buy a bowl 😊
he just did with barely any effort on nothing but that 8k norton. which is about equal to a 5k shapton pro. personally, I suggest you stick to naniwa super stones to make it as foolproof as possible. 3k and 12k then strop and call it a day. but. a lot of guys really like stones such as the 3k naniwa chosera. I personally would not use anything more course than that on a straight razor.
Geo, when you do your video of shaving with this SR, I hope you include a fool's pass (S-N on upper lip). Many SR shavers would like to see how it is done and it's a great way to test a blade's edge condition.
Maşallah bileme taslari Muhteşem çok güzel görünüyorlar eline emeğine sağlık üstadım tebrikler gerçekten çok güzel bir ustura bileme olmuş elinize sağlık üstadım keyifli traslar dilerim selamlar Sevgi ve Saygılarımla Abdullah Menevse adına AnkaraKurdu
It's easier to use a "real" straight razor it has a totally different feel and not as squirley. Buy one shave ready and get a good strop and a fine stone and you'll be fine. I like to put electrical tape on the spine of the blade to prevent from wearing the spine down and only buy razors with minimal spine wear. Get an old Boker razor I find them very easy to sharpen. I started buying and restoring and sharpening them 11 years ago. I now have over 70 razors. I cruise ebay and look for sad (good quality) razors that need some love and save them. Sheffield razors are always a good buy like Jos. Rodgers and Wostenholm, Wade and Butcher etc.
@@markthegunplumber8376mark I do the same thing with eBay!! Lol. The only thing I would add is for your first razor you try to hone stay away f from Swedish and Japanese razors. The steel is much harder and takes longer to hone.
obsessing over angles is high over rated on kitchen knives as well. as long as you're hitting the edge it doesn't really matter. if you're too shallow then keep grinding till you hit the edge and congrats now you have a knife with an even more acute and keen edge than before. if you're too steep, then that's your problem but it will still get sharp. it just wont cut as well.
Hi Geo. Love your channel and your store. I recently became a repeat customer of yours and I can't say enough good things about your business. The turnaround times on orders are second to none. Your price points are excellent and, more often than not, beat out much larger competitors.
I enjoy all of the information you present in each video. I also enjoy seeing razors from your personal collection. The fact that you link the products you use directly to your website has been incredibly helpful.
I have a question; has any manufacturer ever produce a safety razor that takes two double edged razors? Like perhaps a razor in which the blades are stacked on top of one another? Not really looking to buy anything like that, was just curious and I know for a fact you would be the right person to ask.
Either way, keep making the videos and thank you for running such a great business.
I love watching something dull and unusable get transformed into something sharp and shave ready! Top video Geo👊
Geo, you're the man. Thank you for demonstrating to some of these guys who go crazy with this stuff that in fact all you need is a few basic things to maintain any razor. So many guys are convinced you need some extensive set of 12 stones and 4 strops that you have to meticulously go through one by one then bless it with the blood of a red Heffer at half-moon on third Sunday of the month before it's "actually sharp."
Ha Ha! You made me smile with this one... 😀 Thanks for sharing.
Hi i just start to shaving this way iam shaving this way for 3 months and a like too tell me what shaving machine is better too use for a bigginer or soap or cream or what other products too use for a bigginer and i like the price minimum thank you
When you are using the stones, I assume you are keeping both the spine and the edge on the stone to guarantee the angle ?
9:10 He doesn't mention it but here, where Geo wipes the blade, is actually a very important step as you don't want to contaminate the leather side with chromium oxide.
Excellent tutorial Geo. Looking forward to the shave with this razor. HAGS HAGD!
I am French living in japan and last year it was my first time to America, for business and it was at Chicago, but my hotel was at elk grove, I saw shave nation is not so far so I would to go but I couldn’t
I will go to Chicago every 2 years and I hope I can go to your shop next year, I want to buy a bowl 😊
Are the razors you can get on Ebay any good?
What an appropriate video, I’m really interested into buy you a Böker shave knife in a few months, and this will help me
: )
Excellent video Geo:)
What watch is that you got? 😅
Hey geo, what do you use when you need to set a bevel?
he just did with barely any effort on nothing but that 8k norton. which is about equal to a 5k shapton pro. personally, I suggest you stick to naniwa super stones to make it as foolproof as possible. 3k and 12k then strop and call it a day. but. a lot of guys really like stones such as the 3k naniwa chosera. I personally would not use anything more course than that on a straight razor.
Geo, when you do your video of shaving with this SR, I hope you include a fool's pass (S-N on upper lip). Many SR shavers would like to see how it is done and it's a great way to test a blade's edge condition.
I have #12000 stone, too🖐️
When I use those stones and leather strap, really need to focus on it like doing meditation😊
You're gonna run out of arm hair at this rate, Geo 😄
Maşallah bileme taslari Muhteşem çok güzel görünüyorlar eline emeğine sağlık üstadım tebrikler gerçekten çok güzel bir ustura bileme olmuş elinize sağlık üstadım keyifli traslar dilerim selamlar Sevgi ve Saygılarımla Abdullah Menevse adına AnkaraKurdu
I keep wanting to move to straight razors from safety razors, but I think I'll start with Japanese ones with replaceable blades.
Try a cheap Turkish one first, they're lighter and a bit more forgiving👍
It's easier to use a "real" straight razor it has a totally different feel and not as squirley. Buy one shave ready and get a good strop and a fine stone and you'll be fine. I like to put electrical tape on the spine of the blade to prevent from wearing the spine down and only buy razors with minimal spine wear. Get an old Boker razor I find them very easy to sharpen. I started buying and restoring and sharpening them 11 years ago. I now have over 70 razors. I cruise ebay and look for sad (good quality) razors that need some love and save them. Sheffield razors are always a good buy like Jos. Rodgers and Wostenholm, Wade and Butcher etc.
@@markthegunplumber8376mark I do the same thing with eBay!! Lol. The only thing I would add is for your first razor you try to hone stay away f from Swedish and Japanese razors. The steel is much harder and takes longer to hone.
@@charlespreiss3426 I'm a sucker for a good swedish razor I have quite a few.
Oh, that's easier than a kitchen knife because you don't have to worry about holding at the correct angle.
obsessing over angles is high over rated on kitchen knives as well. as long as you're hitting the edge it doesn't really matter. if you're too shallow then keep grinding till you hit the edge and congrats now you have a knife with an even more acute and keen edge than before. if you're too steep, then that's your problem but it will still get sharp. it just wont cut as well.
go the reverse. 4,000 is rougher than 8,000
Just opening a blade paper envelope gives a better result than this!!