Hello,

Gurune a French expat in Ireland.

Following your lead (and I guess my granddad) I tried myself at shaving with a straight razor.
I have to say that all the information in this forum was invaluable.
it all started by me buying the wrong heads for the old Gillette, and tried to think about a more reliable shaving gears.
and here I am now, after buying a Spartacus Thiers issard (2nd hand), I used it on my face.
the result was OK, with no cuts, I have to admit I made some manual touch up with the Gillette.

but so far so good. I just have to pass that learning curve.
being a bit of a project man, I also made my own strop and applied myself at the honing process.
it probably does not help to try everything at once (but I find it hard to resist)

I will also post on the razor page the other razor I acquired, searching for it I only found one reference razor from the same maker (incidentally in this forum)

Thank you again