Thanks for the replies, I am going to be saving up for my birthday until June but by then I want to get as much as I can to make sure that I have as much enjoyment out of this hobby until then. I guess that I have one more question.....for now at least. I know that alot of the variability of how the blade will hone up come from the condition of the blade. So far the feather blade and the dorko are my favs, if I could take the smoothness of the dorko and the sharpness of the feather I would be in heaven. So do any of you guys know what razor(s) would be suitable to hit this level of possible perfection??