Hello all,

I am another shaver from the Netherlands, still using cartridges but intending to go straight as soon as possible.

To start off with, i hope to buy a decent straight blade and a strop. I will hold off the hones until later.

The site manandshaving.nl claims to have all blades professionally sharpened. Does anyone have experience with them? My impression is that they are a bit expensive, but offer a good collection of products. They are located in Naarden so i could even pop by for a visit, which is nice.

The Dovo strop they offer that is still somewhat affordable is 3,5 x 35 cm, which seems a bit small to me. I am not in the market to spend over 100 euro's for a bit wider strop. On SRP i mostly see references to 2" or 3" wide strops, which is quite a bit bigger. Is 3,5 cm enough in width to do some proper stropping?


Suggestion for other sites that offer good deals in the Netherlands would be welcome as well.