Hey guys,

I'd been posting questions for the last few days. I've always been interested in shaving with a straight and I am ready to commit to the purchases to give it a try for real. Anyway, b/c of all the info from this board and from PMs with people who know what they're talking about I'm already addicted - and I haven't even shaved with one! I just bought an ebay razor, to play with honing etc. once I get to that point and I'm getting ready to try and purchase another (honed by a proper honemeister rather than random ebayer) so I can get started.

Anyway I'm just excited because I just purchased this razor (and thanks to someone else posting about it I felt good about the buy): it's a Henckels vintage / Graef and Schmidt 50.

Here's someone's nice pics of theirs

Plus I only paid about $15 for mine so if I get it and it's "a few strops away from being shave ready" as described then I just got a great deal (I think!). So very excited!