OK, I have been shaving with a DE for a decade plus, and decided to make the switch to a straight to have a fun adventure. So I got a shavette a month back figuring it was the best easiest way to learn with out a lot of investment or the distraction of honiing etc. I have shaved with it daily and figure that by this time I have the shave figured out, so its time to take the plunge.

I get a shave ready razor from a board member and strop it sixty times on my paddle. start to shave, it doesn't pull it ripps and drags the hair from my face I haven't felt pain like that in a decade. I figure not quite shave ready so I touch it up with ten laps on a swaty the next day and strop sixty times then start to shave, a bit better, a little bit. Then disaster I touch it to the faucet edge and chip it. Crap, now 100 plus circles on a 4000 and the nick is still there but and trying to shave with it is like touching a blowtorch to my face. I'm fed up, if there isn't and easy cheep fix for this I'm done, the kit goes in the trash and I'm out like a hundred bucks.