thank you for the offer but I think ill try to stick with someone in Aus (keep the cost down as I'm now an even poorer uni student from all my recent shaving aquisitions lol)
I think I will definitely be using a wet sponge of towel from now on. As for your offer, I may take you up on that! I have a balsa strop with paste coming with my new poor mans strop within the next week or so and was thinking to try that and see how it fares. I read in another post were glen/gssixgun mentioned its worth a try but then also said that he has never tried without a stone.
I also really need to stop spending all my time on everything shaving as I have assignments coming out of my ears and have literally run out of time for some of them :-S
this may mean a few weeks break from the straight road...sigh.
I'll be back!