God help me my first straight was a Gold Dollar haha but after that first shave (it honed up well enough to give a good shave that time lol) RAD set in and my first real razor was a 9/16 Wade & Butcher square point. I still have it and it still shaves phenomenally although no longer in the rotation. As for the Gold Dollar it was given away and started another case of RAD in a coworker.