Thank you to all!

It's great to know there are people out there that know what I'm talking about. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit my surprise that a woman from New Zealand holds something like this in common. Wild. I love it.

Hint taken on stropping every time. I'll build it into the a.m. routine.

Good to know I don't necessarily have/need to shave every day with a straight. When I was just shaving str8 on the weekends, it would amaze me the roughage the cartridge would leave behind on weekdays. As ya'll have said, the second day growth after a str8 is less than the roughage of a fresh cartridge shave.

I think I'll save the full WTG, XTG, ATG for special occasions and stick to the WTG, XTG for routine until I've got more shaves under my belt.

I'm surprised I don't have a beard of zits because I catch myself feeling my face ALL DAY.

I kinda like the scraping sound. I was worried it meant I was doing something wrong.

gugi - I've been saving the other razor for when I have to send off the Geneva to be honed, likely to you if you offer that service?

Again, thank you all!