Quote Originally Posted by pitbulls20

I went to my barber one day to ask some questions about straight razors and such and well, that got me almost NO information. He said"You will cut yourself up with one of those" and get a German one. That was it.

Had a similar experience 20 years ago when I started straight shaving with my old barber who used to shave pre-WW 2. He told me to forget about it because disposables were much sharper anyway. Might be his honing wasn't that good... He was a cheap students' barber at the time.