Having ventured into the vintage razor / wet shaving world about 3 years ago I, like many, started with a new DE (Merkur) and then immediately succumbed to a RAD that included many vintage Gillettes, Gem/Ever Readys and Shick injectors

Then I was gifted a nice Filarmonica and located a good Dubl Duck at a yard sale. Having tried to shave with razors that weren't "shave ready", I mostly just kept the razors in a dry environment and put them to rest. A year later I got a nice Wade and Butcher that was my wife's Great Great Grandfathers razor as well as a nice Top Flight razor.

I then went to a honing event and got the razors in decent shape and tried a few SR shaves with varying degrees of success. At the event I heard a bunch of the guys say how they never used DE's anymore after learning to SR shave. I never had great results, so I figured they were WHACK.

Fast forward, I sent off some razors to Glen aka @gssixgun to have them honed to what I considered was SR perfection. I watched several videos on Youtube and practiced practiced practiced.......

Now I almost never use a DE! Holy cow, the ritual of SR shaving is so wonderful and the shave is amazing! My skills are still growing, so I do need to use a DE for chin line clean up and stuff but, there is just something about the whole experience that actually now makes me look forward to every shave! So much so that I am already looking at all the razors (DE's and SE's) that are now going to go up for sale!

So...here I am now...slowly building up my honing stone collections and up to 9 straights of various year/origin. Yesterday I was at a honing event and actually got to go from bevel set to hair popping sharp and lastly shaving with my own "restored razor".......I guess now I am WHACK....It was bound to happen.

Thank you to all of you on this forum for posting such great information and for your friendships!