Hello and good day,

Here we have a Ern the royal crown razor, it's a bit beat up and the bevel is all over the shop but it sharpened well, sat on the stones great and shave like most Ern's do which is super..

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Please check out my face off shave ready tests on your favourite tube, search for me using the same name as this profile " Sustainashave " If you ever see  I haven't posted a shave test for a razor you want to buy just ask and I'll do one for you.

Last re honed from 2000 ceramic shapton grit upwards  to a 12000 shapton pro, & finished on a ex 1980's  barbers Jnat stone stropped shaved with once to check shave readiness, cleaned and dried. It's good steel and if you know how to strop at least decent your be in for many a good shave. If you'd like a Jnat edge on it please just say and I'll do that for nothing extra on the winning bid

My idea of shave ready

When I first started out straight razor wet shaving I didn't have anyone around who knew how to sharpen one let alone shave with one. In fact I brought a couple off eBay in my mid twenties as I really wanted to then but didn't have the knowledge or even the stones to do it. Alas those straights stayed in my draw for years without anything done to them, I moved sold them on and that was it.

Roll on a few years more settled in life, still got the urge and had started looking after my sharp items in a proper manner and had acquired a few diamond plates, so I thought well let's give this a proper go.. I got my first razor from eBay shave ready, but was it heck. It was as  rough a rhinos butt, but what it did do was make me determined. I got a couple of Shaptons and lucked into buying a near NOS small Solingen razor from a company called world shipper, I don't think it had ever seen a hone from factory.

I put it through a few laps on the Shaptons a few times (ok lots) and it's shaved pretty dam good. I think I got about 10 shaves before it got a bit rough..

All the shave ready razors I got from eBay apart from one were not shave ready in any form, and since then I've got a microscope and they indeed were all as rough as a rhinos behind when I looked at them under it.

So what's my idea of shave ready, well it's a razor that shaves my hair with my soaps, pre shave set up and my technique.. Which is what you may ask?

I nearly always shave after a shower, strop my razor, lather my brush with my soap and get lathering up ready to shave no fancy this or that. I'd say I've not got really course hair but I've definitely not got fine hair, on the course side id say. 25 laps or so after I shave on the strops.

While were all different I can near guarantee that you'll get a decent shave from my shave ready razors, if I do now after I all to often I'd  get forms of irritation from the other types of shaving.

What's your shaving journey? Mine goes something like this, I went straight to carts/foam from the beginning while they were ok I'd get quite bad shaving rash on my neck. I've since learned that too many sharp edges on the carts actually start to under cut your hairs leading to irritation and also more chance of ingrowing hairs.

I then went to electric shavers, which while very convenient give the worse shave ever, never clean cut and I also got shaving rash on my neck due to having to go over it so much. Totally fed up I then started thinking about traditional wet shaving again more the straights but I do enjoy a safety shave also.

So why do I love shaving now? Why do I look forward to every shave and not just see and feel it to be a chore. Well it's quite hard to answer that but it's a multitude all rolled into one.

- Firstly we all lead such fast paced lives now that it's a moment in my week that I have to slow down a tad and concentrate, which leads to a feeling of calm

- High level of concentration, when you're wielding one of the sharpest tools us humans have ever created on your skin and near your throat, one HAS to take stock and truly live in that moment. Hand and eye working together to get the cleanest shave possible.

- A great feeling of satisfaction, when one has a good shave one gets to feel the slow burn good feeling that you get from a little bit of you time.

- And lastly a bit of good old pampering, what's a better way to spend some time on you.. I keep it quite simple (I do save special soaps and such for occasions) but theres all sorts of top products with wonderful scents to really give the other half a run for their money in the pampering stakes.

I offer some bargain bucket straights which are not all that good lookers and some would say past their usable best but they will give you a great shave, I wish I could get a real "shave ready" straight when I first started out, even if it was just to give it a good few goes at it.