Thread: Newbie Intro and questions (manchester UK)

Hello.

Ive been lurking around this forum for a month or so, just picking up tips, adamant that I dont really need "help". But I have to hold my hands up, and start a thread seeking help, and introducing myself (im planning on sticking around).

My name is Mark, from Manchester UK, Im 30 with a passion for bushcraft, outdoors and old school equipment (hand forged axe anyone?), Ive made a career in IT, love mechanics, resoration, woodwork, leatherwork, bonsai.. I guess Im a hobbiest? Anyone else in the area?

I hope you dont mind, I will post newbie questions in here as and when I feel the need to ask.


For now...

How do you transfer a brush, into a new home made handle?

Where is the best place to buy "pins" once i make my own scales?

What does the chap use in his "30th anniversary shave" to gain traction on his fingers? Some sort of stone. Im struggling stretching my skin due to slippery grip

Can you achieve the hanging hair test with a hones upto 8k? Maybe with use of heavy newspaper stropping and leather/paste ?

If a car is traveling at 30mph, for 28 minutes upwind, what colour is the drivers underpants?

Why do people have a rotation of blades? one for every day?

If you keep stropping, surly there is no need to re-hone a razor? explain please?

Originally Posted by MSkiba

Hello.

Ive been lurking around this forum for a month or so, just picking up tips, adamant that I dont really need "help". But I have to hold my hands up, and start a thread seeking help, and introducing myself (im planning on sticking around).

My name is Mark, from Manchester UK, Im 30 with a passion for bushcraft, outdoors and old school equipment (hand forged axe anyone?), Ive made a career in IT, love mechanics, resoration, woodwork, leatherwork, bonsai.. I guess Im a hobbiest? Anyone else in the area?

I hope you dont mind, I will post newbie questions in here as and when I feel the need to ask.


For now...

How do you transfer a brush, into a new home made handle?

Where is the best place to buy "pins" once i make my own scales?

What does the chap use in his "30th anniversary shave" to gain traction on his fingers? Some sort of stone. Im struggling stretching my skin due to slippery grip

Can you achieve the hanging hair test with a hones upto 8k? Maybe with use of heavy newspaper stropping and leather/paste ?

If a car is traveling at 30mph, for 28 minutes upwind, what colour is the drivers underpants?

Welcome!

-typically you buy the knot (hair) and put it in the home made handle. I haven't heard of taking an existing knot and transferring. They are normally epoxied in and removing them intact would prove tricky.

-search "micro fasteners" on the forum and you'll find all the info you need regarding sizes etc. but there might be a better place to buy in the UK...I'll default to one of your countrymen to answer that.

-most likely an alum block

-yes, you can cut hair off of a 1k...but if you search HHT here you will learn more than you ever wanted to know. Readers digest version: don't worry about it...if it provides a comfortable shave that's all that matters.

-wait, the UK uses MPH instead of KPH?! How peculiar.

Originally Posted by MSkiba

what colour is the drivers underpants?

Blue anything faster and they change colors according to his political leanings.

Welcome. Yes you can pass the overvalued HHT from an 8k stone.

The rest of your questions have significant threads posted throughout.

Originally Posted by MSkiba

Why do people have a rotation of blades? one for every day?

If you keep stropping, surly there is no need to re-hone a razor? explain please?

They have lots of blades because the suffer from Razor Addictive Order (RAD). Stropping lines everything out and does sharpen, but over time the edge will round out and dull a bit...then some form of more aggressive sharpening is needed (barber hone, cro-ox, hones, etc)

Originally Posted by MSkiba

Why do people have a rotation of blades? one for every day?

If you keep stropping, surly there is no need to re-hone a razor? explain please?

We need an excuse to explain multiple razors.

Originally Posted by MSkiba

If a car is traveling at 30mph, for 28 minutes upwind, what colour is the drivers underpants?

If he's a poofter, they are pink. If he almost gets run over by a lorry, they are brown.

Originally Posted by MSkiba

Why do people have a rotation of blades? one for every day?

If you keep stropping, surly there is no need to re-hone a razor? explain please?

The best excuse to have more than one is you will need to send one off for honing eventually. When you strop a razor you are doing it against a surface that bends. This causes the bevel to be rounded. Eventually it will get to the point that stropping won't get you back into shaving condition any more. The time that this takes can vary a lot.

The best place I've found for pin kits in the UK is theinvisibleedge.co.uk, the last couple of sets I ordered Steve through in a couple of wedges too.

http://www.theinvisibleedge.co.uk/ra...ndpinkits.html

For added grip you can try adding a little Alum to yours finger tips.

Like others have said, it is very difficult to transfer an old knot into a new handle, usually it goes the other way ( buying a new knot to "restore" a beloved vintage handle.)

For grip, you can probably get away with just drying your hand and razor handle, but a little alum can help, too, as others have said.

Originally Posted by MSkiba

If a car is traveling at 30mph, for 28 minutes upwind, what colour is the drivers underpants?

And you want to know this, because . . . ?