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yes, make use of the experience of the senior members and get one that's already done, you have no idea what is important in a razor, plus until it's honed and tested it's really a gamble if the...

I'd say look in the classifieds here, not ebay, but you're grad student, so you've probably figured that out.
Don't know about the strop, the Zee-pk one is apparently piece of trash, and it could be...