I second a coticule. I have spent a few days on a couple fairly small ones, and I'm getting great results even being new to this.
The last few days I've used a La Grosse Blanche bout from The Superior Shave, you can get a great bout for not that much money. Mine was $79, but Jarrod got bouts down to $30-40 that will work great.

By blix72 at 2011-06-14