I got into it because of my father. When I started the DE thing, I was asking him if he still had any of his old DE razors. He taught me to shave with a DE 40 years ago or so. He said he had since gotten rid of them, but, he told me a story about returning from WWII and he had developed an interest in using a straight because while in Italy, he had seen all of the locals using them, and had many barber shave while there. When he got back to Arkansas, he went to the old home barber and bought 2 straights and had the barber hone them for him.

He put the razors away and never shaved with it because he just could not work up the nerve. He rummaged around and found them and presented them to me, along with a strop and barbers hone. All NOS and never used.

Well I am proud to say, that one of the razors was still shave ready, and after stropping, it is now my daily shaver! The other had a tiny nick, and is now on the way to one of our fine honemeisters to be added to my daily rotation.

Randy