So I have a story of my first ever shave with a straight, and y'all are going to shoot me for it.

I got an ebay razor- that I could not find any details on- for 10 bucks. It's a Friedrich Baurmann and Sons 96, from Solingen (Blade stamp- Friedr. Baurmann & Sohne, Solingen, 96). Just got it. Definately not shave ready, scales aren't too good, some tarnishing. I'm sending it off to be rescaled and honed, but was eager to try it, so I metal polished it, stropped about 20 laps on newspaper, lathered up and went for it. Slowly- my whole face took 15 mins. And I only nicked myself once. But my beard was gone. Now everything I did was against all advice, but it was one of the cleanest shaves I've ever had, with very little razor burn. Either I hit a miracle razor, or my beard is made of butter. I dunno. So now put me in front of the firing squad for all my blatant vagrancies- I just thought the world should hear of this miracle. Too often I hear horror stories about terrible straight razor shaves and nicks and cuts and I'm glad thats not how it went with me.