Question For "Newbies"--How Did You Learn of SMF?

mantic · Post by **mantic** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:44 pm

Greetings--

I'm doing some background on a proposed magazine article about the re-surgence of traditional shaving (the board vets may remember my initial stab at this over a year ago; it was sidelined by health and business issues).

I am particularly interested in how new users (say, within the last six months) "discovered" this site. Comments welcome. Poll will run for 60 days.

(Would a mod mind making this a "sticky?")

--Mark

Feldenak · Post by **Feldenak** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:00 pm

I did a Google search for "shavegeek" after reading the Shaveblog rip on the term.

With The Grain · Post by **With The Grain** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:03 pm

SRP, i believe randy taylor's posts got me curious about smf and now i owe him one! thanks randy, love this place

Greggy_D · Post by **Greggy_D** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:37 pm

Google is your friend.

aircraft_electrician · Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:48 pm

My friends at Fountain Pen Network led me here, unfortunately now I'm neglecting them for this forum. Oh well.

Tom

SteveL · Post by **SteveL** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:49 pm

It was either shaveblog or the MSN group. It was at least indirectly shaveblog, which then led me to the MSN group which I know I checked out first. I just don't recall if the group refered me here or the shaveblog did.

skalogre · Post by **skalogre** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:09 pm

www.styleforum.net

kaptain_zero · Post by **kaptain_zero** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:31 pm

For me it was the Ask Andy forum.... Not sure now if it was a direct reference or if it was just the idea of what to search for on the net next....

Christian

drP · Post by **drP** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:42 am

It was back in those days of the autumn of 2004 that SMF was mentioned on the MSN Wetshaversforum; at that time, there were only 25 members since the start on july 6; you can see from the fact that in august and october no members were registrated and in september only one, that SMF wasn't known very well on the MSN board; even a shavegeek like me took it nearly 5 months to get registrated.

Peter

Onion · Post by **Onion** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:11 am

I was led here from Fountain Pen Network.... I'll never be able to thank the memphis lawyer enough!!!

styptic screams · Post by **styptic screams** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:27 am

I was Googlin' for maintenance info for mah pencil-thin mustache...

Chris Richards · Post by **Chris Richards** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:15 am

For me, it was a post on Fatwallet.com which led me to the MSN wetshavers site...after digging around there for a while I came across this site. So glad I did too....

Nitrox · Post by **Nitrox** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:38 am

I was searching for badger brushes on Google and now I've found the best site for shaving information.

jww · Post by **jww** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:39 am

I first stumbled across the Corey Greenburg piece on the Today Weekend website, which then directed me to the MSN WetShavers group, which in turn directed me to this forum.

I think it's by far the best of all the wet shaving forums I belong to. In fact, I don't even check for new posts on the other sites any more.

jww

vontech · Post by **vontech** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:09 am

Google shaving, found Wetshavers, read about SMF, came here and stayed.

AACJ · Post by **AACJ** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:15 am

Indirectly through the Richmond Times Dispatch in an article I read about shaving. Of course it directed me to classic shaving and the original shave geek, which in turn directed me to this site.

TJM III · Post by **TJM III** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:22 am

Read a post in Ask Andy, went to Wetshavers, then here. I've found this to be the best of the shaving forums. I check in on the other ones once in a while, but find they don't have many postings.

Tom

rustyblade · Post by **rustyblade** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:30 am

I am subscribed a mailing list called Kevin's Cool Tools mailing list where people submit their favourite tool or gadget. Somebody submitted a Mekur HD linked to Classicshaving, I bought a Futur a week later and I was googling for reviews on it and eventually found SMF.

SupaDongzu · Post by **SupaDongzu** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:33 pm

rustyblade wrote:I am subscribed a mailing list called Kevin's Cool Tools mailing list where people submit their favourite tool or gadget. Somebody submitted a Mekur HD linked to Classicshaving,

I also found it via Cool Tools, only I saw Kevin's blog entry on it. I followed up to classicshaving and googled around a bit. Eventually I found shaveblog and all his links into the SMF brush controversy in here. So technically I found this place via Corey, but I found the whole practice via Kevin Kelly.

RansomOttawa · Post by **RansomOttawa** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:46 pm

I had read an acquaintance's blog entry about his first experience wetshaving after being a dedicated electric shaver, and I started searching the Net for information about the products he was using, as well as some of the ones I'd seen in stores (Williams, Florena, etc.). Eventually I stumbled on SMF.

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Question For "Newbies"--How Did You Learn of SMF?