It seems to me that there are two shaving stores in Arizona, one in phoenix and the other in tucson. You may want to check one of those out. What you do wind up buying should be shave ready. By shave ready, what I mean is it should be hand honed and stropped, ready to shave with straight out of the box. There are also a number of reputable internet stores to check with. This site is actually part of the business of Straight Razor Designs, which has a very good reputation but is not the only show in town. If you would like to further discuss this you can PM me or reply in this post. Any good internet vendor will have done business with multiple people on this site and if you ask all those with positive experience will chime in.