Well, it's been a couple of years since I was last here, and you know what? I still can't use a straight razor. Redundancy, debt and unemployment saw me disappear from online shenanigans in an effort to curb spending and focus on other things. Rather than continue learning to use my new (at the time) Dovo razor, I instead opted for cultivating a beard once more. But the time of the beard is now in the past. Now is the time of a cleanly shaven face (with the exception of the goatee as I still get really unnerved when I see my lack of a chin in the mirror).

And so it's back to my original goal. Finding a strop that's good enough to maintain my razor, while not costing so much money that I weep uncontrollably when my inexperienced stropping technique gouges chunks from its surface.