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i had this posted on B+B to ask opinions as to whether my razor was any good or not.
basically i bought it in Manchester about 20 yrs ago after some mates went down to look at a motor and we got lost.
ended up in some huge shopping centre and whilst wandering round i found a shop that was a purveyor of knives to the gentry and they had an open razor section so i got one and a strop.
later that night i foamed up (still on the canned stuff at that time) and, well :?
with no instructions, how the hell do you hold/use this thing?
looks easy in the cowboy films, can't be that hard.
my first try was holding the blade at right angles to my face :lol:
cue lot's of scraping, bouncing etc
you get the idea
so to combat this i went for a REALLY shallow angle - maybe i should be using a slicing action
well slice i did
my face :shock:
disaster all round
fcuk me it hurt, and bleed, JHC! (sorry Ollie)
so it was resigned to a drawer for years
i did mention it to the wife when we were courting and she was a hairdresser in her younger days, well back when they still offered shaves at the barbers, so she offered to shave me
i was pretty nervous but to her credit the first thing she did was a Hanging Hair Test and immediately said "this isn't sharp enough"
so no shave
FWD to now and i had given the blade and strop away to a barber but have got it back with the intent to learn how to use the damn thing.
it has been honed by a proffesional but i'm still not convinced it's sharp enough.
anyhoo, here's some picture for you to see
basically i bought it in Manchester about 20 yrs ago after some mates went down to look at a motor and we got lost.
ended up in some huge shopping centre and whilst wandering round i found a shop that was a purveyor of knives to the gentry and they had an open razor section so i got one and a strop.
later that night i foamed up (still on the canned stuff at that time) and, well :?
with no instructions, how the hell do you hold/use this thing?
looks easy in the cowboy films, can't be that hard.
my first try was holding the blade at right angles to my face :lol:
cue lot's of scraping, bouncing etc
you get the idea
so to combat this i went for a REALLY shallow angle - maybe i should be using a slicing action
well slice i did
my face :shock:
disaster all round
fcuk me it hurt, and bleed, JHC! (sorry Ollie)
so it was resigned to a drawer for years
i did mention it to the wife when we were courting and she was a hairdresser in her younger days, well back when they still offered shaves at the barbers, so she offered to shave me
i was pretty nervous but to her credit the first thing she did was a Hanging Hair Test and immediately said "this isn't sharp enough"
so no shave
FWD to now and i had given the blade and strop away to a barber but have got it back with the intent to learn how to use the damn thing.
it has been honed by a proffesional but i'm still not convinced it's sharp enough.
anyhoo, here's some picture for you to see