Welcome to the SRP Forum and Family.

We have some great Mentors in OK - and I suspect they will be chiming in shortly.
A few hours with one of the Mentors will save you months of time in the learning process.

It's much easier to learn how to use a Straight when your razor is always in top form.
But when you have to learn everything from scratch, keeping your edge perfect is hard to do.
One of the skills that a Mentor can help you with in short order is stropping and edge care.

Smooth Shaving...