I started with that same shavette. Used it perhaps 4x. Big difference and much more unforgiving compared to a str8. There are those who like them tho and the hand motion is about the same. You can always pick one up then when you decide to go to the str8 you can pass it on to another newbie. Just one word of caution. Don't judge str8s and str8 shave by the shavette.