I ordered my first straight, a GD 66 for 6$ shipped. But after reading around I decided to get a vintage one also.
Vintage Columbia Cutlery Co Extra Hollow Ground Straight Razor 11 16 | eBay

I ordered that. I already have lots of water/oilstones from knife/japanese sword polishing. I did order a purple welsh stone w/ slurry, and will be getting a DT and the finer black one to complete the set. If i'm gonna spend 100$ or more on a stone it would be a toishi for sword polishing so the welsh stones will have to do for honing.

I have 400/1k/3k waterstones and blue grey uchigumori-hato bench stone. Besides an assortment of oilstones but I use those for knives. Also will be upgrading to a 3" wide strop from my current 2" one I made.

Basically my question is this. Even as an advanced knife/sword polisher would it be hard for me to get my straights shave ready without a professionally done example on hand? I'm possibly thinking of a flawed blade from whippeddog for 28$, but only if really necessary.