chti_lolo
Well-Known Member
Hi,
Let me introduce myself. I'm Laurent and live in France and I'm a total beginner in straight razor stuff.I've have been a DE shaver for quite a long time now, and since some months use more and more frequently a DOVO shavette. So,I thought, it was time for me to enter the straight razor world.
After looking for information on many forums (B&B, Straight Razor Place, SMF , Coupe-chou club....), I decided to buy a shave ready straight razor and some essential equipments. As I have not found in my area a retailer who sells shave ready razors, I ordered overseas some days ago a DOVO tortoise 5/8, a hanging strop , a paddle strop , 0.5 micron diamond spay and chromium oxyde paste. The kind person who sells me the razor tells me that with good stropping and using diamond spray on felt when the razor starts to pull a little, I could keep it shave ready for quite a long time. But sooner or later, I have to send my razor to a professional honer or to do it myself. I have done some new research, and found this site. I was immediately seduced by the approach of using one single and natural hone for most maintenance on the razor and the quality of the documentation I can find on this site.
I thought of an experiment : I can hone myself a new factory honed with a coticule and compare the result with my future new professionaly honed razor . So what kind of razor and what kind of coticule, do you think will be well adapted to this beginner experiment?
Laurent ( sorry for my bad english, but I'm french)
Let me introduce myself. I'm Laurent and live in France and I'm a total beginner in straight razor stuff.I've have been a DE shaver for quite a long time now, and since some months use more and more frequently a DOVO shavette. So,I thought, it was time for me to enter the straight razor world.
After looking for information on many forums (B&B, Straight Razor Place, SMF , Coupe-chou club....), I decided to buy a shave ready straight razor and some essential equipments. As I have not found in my area a retailer who sells shave ready razors, I ordered overseas some days ago a DOVO tortoise 5/8, a hanging strop , a paddle strop , 0.5 micron diamond spay and chromium oxyde paste. The kind person who sells me the razor tells me that with good stropping and using diamond spray on felt when the razor starts to pull a little, I could keep it shave ready for quite a long time. But sooner or later, I have to send my razor to a professional honer or to do it myself. I have done some new research, and found this site. I was immediately seduced by the approach of using one single and natural hone for most maintenance on the razor and the quality of the documentation I can find on this site.
I thought of an experiment : I can hone myself a new factory honed with a coticule and compare the result with my future new professionaly honed razor . So what kind of razor and what kind of coticule, do you think will be well adapted to this beginner experiment?
Laurent ( sorry for my bad english, but I'm french)