Congratulations on an excellent website. I've used your resources so thought I'd repay you all with a little monologue

I am in the UK and can't really pinpoint the exact date I knew I should be using a straight razor, but there was no doubt that I should. I read pages on the internet and followed links to some very helpful Quicktime clips. Then ebay came into it's own.
I bought a new strop with paste, a badger hair brush and made the decision to buy an old razor. I figured that if I couldn't restore an old razor and make it work I should grow a beard.
I won a very old eye witness razor for £4 (about $6) including postage, sorted out (flattenned) an old sharpening stone with the sheet of glass & wet&dry sandpaper and then set to work grinding the blade.
After a few hours careful honing (and inspecting with a 30x achromatic lens) I felt happy enough to proceed to the stropping. I must admit I've wrecked my strop learning how to use it but I'm much better now. I created a very very scarily sharp blade. Anyway to cut a long story short, SUCCESS!!!
I've never been so terrified in a long time as I was during the first shave but now I've got through the first few shaves and my technique is improving. I'm very happy with my decision. Confidence is the key early on I think. To be perfectly honest I think I bled more when I was learning to use a safety razor (however that was probably because of acne so there's no real comparison).
However I really have three points to make
1) you don't have to follow the shaving diagrams. Everybody has a different face and anomalies with hair direction. Use the diagrams as a loose guide and do what shaves you best
2) you don't need to spend much money
3) never, ever shave naked (no I didn't and no I did not drop the razor either)

Finally I can't shave every day yet because my facial skin needs to get used to this new onslaught. Can anyone let me know how long I should wait before doing it on a daily basis? Or should I be braving it now?