Continue with a shavette or go to SR?

Okay, I think the message hit home. I should try a straight as the shavette doesn't offer the best open blade experience.

Thank you all for these suggestions and encouragement. I really appreciate it. What splendid, good value enablement.

I will follow the suggestions above and contact Fergiebilly. I shall also do a lot more research: Weck, Westholme, dolphins.
 
^^^^^^^^^^ If I wanted another straight that's the best offer I'd get. I was blessed enough to get a straight which had been restored by the original Invisible Edge ( sadly no longer available ) and it had been beautifully stropped and honed to a standard few of us would ever get near, especially as beginners.

JohnnyO. o/

I restored and honed hundreds of razors for the Invisible edge.;)
 
I thought a follow up on this thread would be useful and a way of saying thanks to those who have helped so far.

Fergiebilly provided a lovely Solingen steel razor which I have used several times since receiving it. I also spotted some tempting offers in the BST section so have a small selection of vintage blades now. I have learned a huge amount in a short time and have mostly enjoyed it; a character fault of mine is pushing too far too soon however and finding limits rather than accepting the recommendations to practice and develop skills slowly. I've paid for that with the odd wound and unsatisfactory shave. I've also had fantastic results on occasion.

My favourite advice gleaned here has been Fergiebilly's 'slowly slowly catchee monkey' true of so many skills, shame I've not necessarily kept to it. I will continue with that in mind though.

I'm getting similar results in two passes to two passes with a DE; perfectly good for this early stage in my learning but not quite enough when I know that a third pass (with a DE) would clean up completely. I get too much irritation under the chin and sometimes on the neck to do three SR passes at the moment.

What I've also found is that my freshly Billy-honed razor shows up the least keen of the others and no amount of stropping gets it much better. I think it'll have to visit an expert.

Big thanks to all who've facilitated this. I've read back through pages of this section and found lots of other useful threads and advice, plundered and stored away.

Needless to say; I've not touched the shavette since a SR arrived in the house...
 
I thought a follow up on this thread would be useful and a way of saying thanks to those who have helped so far.

Fergiebilly provided a lovely Solingen steel razor which I have used several times since receiving it. I also spotted some tempting offers in the BST section so have a small selection of vintage blades now. I have learned a huge amount in a short time and have mostly enjoyed it; a character fault of mine is pushing too far too soon however and finding limits rather than accepting the recommendations to practice and develop skills slowly. I've paid for that with the odd wound and unsatisfactory shave. I've also had fantastic results on occasion.

My favourite advice gleaned here has been Fergiebilly's 'slowly slowly catchee monkey' true of so many skills, shame I've not necessarily kept to it. I will continue with that in mind though.

I'm getting similar results in two passes to two passes with a DE; perfectly good for this early stage in my learning but not quite enough when I know that a third pass (with a DE) would clean up completely. I get too much irritation under the chin and sometimes on the neck to do three SR passes at the moment.

What I've also found is that my freshly Billy-honed razor shows up the least keen of the others and no amount of stropping gets it much better. I think it'll have to visit an expert.

Big thanks to all who've facilitated this. I've read back through pages of this section and found lots of other useful threads and advice, plundered and stored away.

Needless to say; I've not touched the shavette since a SR arrived in the house...

:D:D

Billy
 
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