Quote Originally Posted by burns420 View Post
Why leave it as a "winter project"? Just get the stuff and shave. Buy or make a cheap, but decent strop and a good vintage razor. Unless you break it, the worst you'll do to the razor is dull the edge which can be fixed but the strop will take a beating. When I decided to straight shave, i bought a used strop locally for $40 and a nice dubl duck for $65 that was shave ready. I threw out or gave away all my gilette razors and started off doing my whole face right away. After 2 shaves there was no more irritation and I got the hang of it. Although I learned to shave with a straight, I moved to the Mach 3 and such after a few years and recently switched back to straight blades. Just don't think of it as a "project", becaus it isn't.
This is exactly the way I'll be going.