Thread: Started to collect... even before my first shave!

Hello
Thanks to everyone for the great info I have found on your boards. I have been a DE shaver for a few months and am gathering courage to join your ranks. I kind of got ahead of myself and started picking stuff up rather than getting a starter set. Dropping 150 or so without a stone was a concern at the time. But I now realize this was a mistake.

I have a brush and soaps from DE but needed a blade, strop and stone.

I picked up a Wapi (not from Mike's offer unfortunately) that is not shave ready. So I am now looking for a strop and stone = Tony and Norton.

I also picked up these cheapies off ebay to practice honing and try my hand at restoring - I see all of the great restorations done here and would like to try it myself.

The decorated blade shows alot of hone wear, I know, but the Genco is in pretty good shape IMHO. Please tell me otherwise.

I will send the wapi out for a pro hone but do want to get a stone... do it yourself kind of guy.

Again thanks for the info and if any other newbies read this, if you can, get a starter set!

Eric