Yesterday I sent a fine gent from this forum funds for my first razor. A real nice Emperial. I cant wait for it to arrive! Pinklather is a great guy(thanks pink!) I saw a deal on this forum about how straight shaving can save money over disposables, but it left out the chance that you can turn into a collector and restorer and end up spending millions LOL! Oh well. life is good. Years ago my wife got me a gift card for a straight razor shave at a fancy place in town. I loved the shave but the place was a little fancy feeling for me. Real salon type place, and me heavily tattood and wearing bib overalls (my nice going out on the town bibs mind you) anyway loved the shave and knew one day I want to do that myself. so again I love SRP and I am so glad I found this place.