Hello All,

I've been safety razoring for the past decade, but back in my school days in India I used to get straight shaved by the school barber.

Yesterday, I was given a supposedly shave ready straight razor by a friend who made the handle himself. Not a particularly great piece- a "gold dollar" (chinese made), but seems sharp enough to plink off bits of hair just by the weight of the hair on the edge. So I figured what the heck no time like the present. I've always wanted to get back into straight shaving, but I was never fond of shavettes.

But even I'm not fool enough to imagine I'll be any good at this. So here I am on this forum. Hopefully, I will continue to post, not having sliced my own head off by mistake. And eventually find myself worthy of shelling out the big bucks for a proper blade. I have a couple of old cowhide strops for my whittling knives, and my dad's old badger brush, so I figure this is good enough to begin with...

My first request is... in case the edge proves less than satisfactory can anyone recommend a honing service I can trust in Atlanta? And is it even worth it with what I'm assuming is medium to low/medium quality steel? I'd do it myself, but honing a razor is very very different from honing a whittling knife, and I'm not sure I can pull it off...