New straight razor fan

[jdizzle707]

I tried my first straight razor from Art of Shaving and really scraped my face pretty bad. I went back to the store and asked to exchange it because it was clearly not prehoned (although their literature clearly says they should be). The guy told me to take it to shop and pay to have it rehoned. I told him no way and instead bought a nice Thiers Issard from ClassicShaving.com--life has been wonderful since :-) See photos below. The steel handle was a TI from Art of Shaving and the one with a Red Stamina handle is from ClassicShaving.com. They are roughly around $170 each but I feel my Red Stamina blade is much better. I confirmed that it is made of Sheffield Steel too whereas the guys from Art of Shaving could never confirm or deny their TIs to be made of Sheffield Steel.