Spoke with Parker's father and it's all a "go". I'll be sending out his razor today if the wife will mail it off for me. When you get the razor, please only wipe the blade with alcohol to disinfect the blade...no stropping yet. Practice stropping with a butter knife. When you shave with the blade, strop about 40x after the shave & 60x before your second shave. It's about to all get very REAL, so please take your time...or the blade will remind you.