Well I went for it today and had my first straight razor shave, my wife used to be a barber so she has her old straight razor with all of her stuff. I dug it out and put in a new blade (obviously it takes a disposable blade). First thoughts are that this razor is waaayyyy too light to shave with on a regular basis, also I am not too sure how these blades stack up to a properly honed straight. But that shave was not too bad, I only wound up with 3 very small nicks that stopped bleeding very fast on their own. Quality wise it was comparable to a bad DE shave, I only did one pass and I a fairly close in most areas, I can do the same with my DE, but when I did my post shave alum WOW; this was an uncomfortable shave. I know this will get better in time with practice on my technique so I am not too worried about it. My last thought for now is that I never realized how hard it is to really see what you are doing when you are shaving with one of these, there is always something in the way of the view of the blade and the angle.

Chief