HOW DID SRP START? I want to know the history of it all!!

Pearl Razor · 06-20-2008, 03:48 AM

Hello again,

I've been searching and searching for information on how this site came to be. Who started it, where, why, how, and who were the first to really rediscover the ART? I'm very curious!

One more quesition if that lots was not enough
does anyone know any links or sites for videos that show SR leg shaving? I have watched load of the face shaving ones, but would absolutely LOVE to see a leg shaving one!
(Been getting ready watching and reading because I have some shaving gear on its way!!yey. )

Hope your still smiling from your last shave and can't wait to join you!

Pearl

coachmike · 06-20-2008, 03:49 AM

The person you are looking for is Lynn. He started all this and is the driving force that keeps pushing for the whole world to use straights...LOL

syslight · 06-20-2008, 03:58 AM

OK briefly, this site came about after Al gore invented the INTERNET. before that it was and still is a yahoo user group which according to my email still gets a fair amount of interest.

Lynn Abrams is the man responsible for the yahoo group and this Site. he was the original owner and is now in partnership with Don Addlerbrook (sp?) here and at www.straightrazordesign.com they through generosity and perseverance have made this site the open and "civilized" site you see now.

As for the lost art of straight razor shaving, it really was not lost just hidden from view... i have used a straight razor since the 1970's as my father and his father and on back did. however the owners of the site reside inthe capital of american straight shaving.... medina, ohio

Lynn, though, brought it into the open and onto the net... if memory serves all the other wet shaving groups are offshoots of here and the yahoo group....

slap me if i am wrong...

they need to suck it up and write a decent history of the place.

freebird · 06-20-2008, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Pearl Razor

Hello again,

One more quesition if that lots was not enough
does anyone know any links or sites for videos that show SR leg shaving? I have watched load of the face shaving ones, but would absolutely LOVE to see a leg shaving one!

Pearl

Hi Pearl, welcome to the world of straight shaving. To answer your first question, CoachMike is correct, Lynn Abrams is the driving force behind Straight Razor Place and keeping Straight Razor shaving alive.

In answer to your second question, I'm not sure of any videos of leg shaving with a straight, but if I know some of these guys on here, they also would love to see one as well.

Again, Welcome to the group.
Tony
aka "Freebird"

LilithParker · 06-20-2008, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Pearl Razor

does anyone know any links or sites for videos that show SR leg shaving? I have watched load of the face shaving ones, but would absolutely LOVE to see a leg shaving one!

I'm planning on making one... just keep reminding me or I'll forget!

Pearl Razor · 06-20-2008, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by LilithParker

I'm planning on making one... just keep reminding me or I'll forget!

THAT WOULD BE SUPER!! I WOULD LOVE THAT, THANKS LILITH!!

Pearl

Silver · 06-20-2008, 09:25 AM

That would be so cool! Thank you for stepping up to the plate Lilith.

Mike_ratliff · 06-20-2008, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by LilithParker

I'm planning on making one... just keep reminding me or I'll forget!

is that before or after the PCR video you are planning on making?

and back on the original topic... After the ice age, when they discovered and thawed Lynn out, he was appauled to see how backwards modern man had become.
Pulling their facial hair out with strange buzzing plastic boxes, or shaving with cheaply made wire thin blades set in pink colored plastic...
Fortunately he was from a more civilized age, and he knew the solution.

and as Syslight said thanks to Al Gore he had a way to spread the good word.

It's all true, I swear it...

Seriously, Syslight's version is what I understand to be true, many of us would not be using straights, or would still be struggling if it weren't for the hard work of Mr. Lynn Abrams.

Pearl Razor · 06-20-2008, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

is that before or after the PCR video you are planning on making?

Naughty naughty!!!

But thanks for the other erhm confusing info....

LilithParker · 06-20-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

is that before or after the PCR video you are planning on making?

LOL! Not a chance. :P

hoglahoo · 06-20-2008, 02:11 PM

The original yahoo group is here straightrazorplace : Straight Razor Place
It looks like Lynn posted back in late 2000, so I'm guessing that's about when it started

Straight Razor Place Straight Razor Place
Welcome to the Yahoo! Message Board for Straight Razor Place... adjustme69

Nov 21, 2000
12:56 am

Mike_ratliff · 06-20-2008, 02:36 PM

could be worse...
ever seen what a bird goes through to get a good shave???

Seraphim · 06-20-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

could be worse...
ever seen what a bird goes through to get a good shave???

Is that called as a "ball" or "strike"? Egads!

hoglahoo · 06-20-2008, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Seraphim

Is that called as a "ball" or "strike"? Egads!

That's called a fowl

nun2sharp · 06-20-2008, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by hoglahoo

That's called a fowl

. Thats too funny.
BTW, as it was explained to me, God created the heavans and the earth and everybody thought he was resting on the 7th day, actually he was surfing SRP and forgot about the time.

Berticus · 06-20-2008, 04:54 PM

To my knowledge SRP wasn't the very start of Straight Razor Shaving: The Resurrection. It was more like the first place to build a community of straight shavers and build a collective knowledge. SRP was the last place I looked when learning about straight shaving. Straight shaving was never completely lost, so it wasn't rediscovered or anything.

Also, sorry to burst people's bubbles, but Al Gore did not invent the internet or even the world wide web :P Internet, as a global network, was available in the 80's. The idea of a global network started in the 70's. There were actually already earlier versions of networks in the 60's in labs at MIT. Jumping back up to the 90's, the internet was popularized with the invention of the world wide web, credited to Sir Tim Berners-Lee (he still maintains the specifications at w3c). As for the 2000's, not quite sure what the major landmark is/will be. Currently the U.S. government is hoping to replace 56k with broadband, making it freely available to everyone, fundings wouldn't come from taxes but through ads. I think the more likely project to grab the 2000 landmark is something called the Grid. The Grid is sort of like internet 2.0. It'll offer speeds 10,000x faster than what we get now, and it's expected to be released, what for it...

... this summer! And with that, there will be a boom in storage devices! My 2 TB then, will look as dinky as 2 MB looks like to us now. And imagine Esther Dyson's prediction come true. Never have to pay for music, movies, or software ever again! It will become too cheap and easy to copy and distribute.

Imagine if SRP was put on the Grid! New communication mediums we currently aren't even able to fathom right now making it easier to learn how to shave with a straight razor! Instead of making videos and writing articles/manuals on how to do stuff, we would make holographic images containing digital models of ourselves and they could pretty much just go to your places and not only show us how to shave, but make corrections as you do your first shave, and giving us some pointers! And this will be available to us in what? 2-5 years?!?!?! Crazy how fast technology progresses...

Mike_ratliff · 06-21-2008, 06:20 AM

The Al gore invented the internet thing was a joke...
and the question wasn't how straight razor shaving started, but how SRP got started... I think you took my parody a little too seriously.

I'm also reasonably certain Lynn was never frozen in ice.

Nickelking · 06-21-2008, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Berticus

Also, sorry to burst people's bubbles, but Al Gore did not invent the internet or even the world wide web :P Internet, as a global network, was available in the 80's. The idea of a global network started in the 70's. There were actually already earlier versions of networks in the 60's in labs at MIT. Jumping back up to the 90's, the internet was popularized with the invention of the world wide web, credited to Sir Tim Berners-Lee (he still maintains the specifications at w3c).

Just to clarify the clarification; He never claimed he invented it, only that he pushed forward legislation to help it to grow to where it is today. Snopes is great.

But it's still a funny line to throw out. or if I wanted to be bipartisan I could say that president elect Gore invented the internet.

anyhow, sorry

CDpyroNme · 06-25-2008, 12:23 PM

By the way, mike, I think you're barking up the wrong tree with lillith. I'm surprised Viola hasn't already posted a SR leg-shaving video but more to the point, I'm thoroughly impressed that she hasn't shot a PCR video and posted it on ebay. And people say the Ducks are going for unreal prices...

Or lillith, if you're feeling enterprising, there's always instructional videos. Seems to work for the other aspects of SRP. Sorry this whole post was WAY off topic, but the "reasonably certain Lynn was never frozen in ice" caused too much laughter to not warrant a comment. Plus I don't have any more to add to what's been said other than I would be having a terrible time with straight shaving if it weren't for this place.

Have fun ladies and welcome, Pearl

Adam

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Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff

The Al gore invented the internet thing was a joke...
and the question wasn't how straight razor shaving started, but how SRP got started... I think you took my parody a little too seriously.

I'm also reasonably certain Lynn was never frozen in ice.