Hello all! I just wanted to introduce myself and ask a few quick questions. Though I'm not exactly "new" to straight razor shaving (it's now my gramps taught me to shave), I's been almost a decade since I've massacred my face to remove whiskers. My fiance has recently started making shaving soap and my DE and I have been her guinea pig. This has renewed my interest in using my deceased relative's old razors and strops. So here are my questions...

1. I just don't really have the room to hang gramps old strop (which I have cared for over the years because I have very fond memories of it and him) for daily use. Are there any good economical paddle strops out here? I've looked at the selection at classicshaving.com, but their price points just don't really fit my budget at the moment.

2. Unfortunately my nice old hone that gramps left me was cracked at some point over the last few years. At some point I will purchase another because I use to hone gramps for him and remember how much of a relaxing zen like mood it put me in when I was stressed back in college. Is there someone out there who can hone for me relatively inexpensively and with a decent turn around (I've also got one old razor that needs some minor resto I'd like to have done)?

I've been browsing the forum for the past few days and have learned quite abit. I'm not really a big forum poster, so just let me say now to everyone out there....Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us!

Steven