Just got a straight razor from JoshEarl, it's a real beauty, shaved with it yesterday and had a pretty solid shave out of it. Had a bit of trouble with the left side of my face, I'm right handed, but I feel I got the hang of it. I didn't go around my adam's apple with the straight, I just used a regular razor on that, figure I'll wait for a while until I go around with that the str8. I'm looking around for strops now, I won't shave again without a strop because I don't want to hurt the razor. Can anyone let me know about strop paste? What does it do? is a two sided paddle strop from Tony a decent starter?