I got turned onto Straight Edge Razors towards the tail end of my last semester of college, when one of my suite mates comes to me (knowing I was a knife collector, and that I had my honing jig with me) asking if I could hone his straight edge - I turned him down, knowing that there was a significant difference between sharpening a knife and sharpening a razor. He had the strop, and now I suspect that's all he needed, but I had no idea where to even begin with the thing at the time.

I did however ask how he liked it, and he told me to give it a try. I swore a vendetta against Gillette that day - or at the very least to switch to a straight edge.

I just finally gathered the money to buy everything, and I'm about to pull the trigger. So, while doing some last minute research, I found you guys and decided to join.