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Enthusiasm is good! Practicing with wood-carving knives...probably not. Although I'm going to be practicing my stropping tonight with a butter knife!

I'm glad to hear you're getting excited, I...

Welcome to SRP, Jim. I'd definitely recommend watching all the videos you can. And even then, once you get cold steel in hand, you'll realize (at least I did) that it's entirely different for you....

Thanks Greg,

The wee scot was actually kinda fun to lather with, but will soon be relegated to travel brush. I need to experiment with angles tonight, and which hand feels right on which side of...

Taking a cue from another set of posts I hope to someday take part in:

First "real" shave of my life 05/04/10

Pre-shave prep: Hot shower
Brush: Simpsons "Wee Scot"
Blade: 5/8 M. Jung "Our...