I ditched the shavette and am finally making some good progress with the straight. I'm learning quite a different technique with flatter angles etc and now when I'm done I look like I've had a shave. A patchy shave performed by a badly trained chimp, but a shave none the less which is an improvement. I finish the job with a DE instead of the shavette now. I'm still not totally convinced my razor is as sharp as it could (should?) be, but by now there's a lot of amature stropping involved so I'm willing to believe it was good when it arrived. I tried shaving with the shavette again last night to compare and it's very different to use. I was thinking about posting a bit more detail about my switch from shavette to straight and what I've been learning when I get a bit more time.