Lurking around for a while. Just took the leap.
I've been lurking around here for awhile. I'm kind of going gradually into this. First I bought a silver tip bore brush and used regular disposables. Then I bought an old Gillette DE razor with the adjustable cutting angle. Now I'm making good lather and getting great results with Feather blades, Proraso shaving cream, (I tried others including Truefitt & Hill but keep coming back to Proraso.) But I still wanted to go more pure into the shaving thing.
I just bought from the classified a Geneva Straight Razor 5/8" for $31 dollars. I don't think it's shave ready so I'll be having it professionally honed.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask or if I should go to strops. But here goes, How's a razor back strop? I'm told it's pig skin?
Thanks to everyone here for such great information and a community spirit.
Dave