1st razor in hand!! Couple "swipes"
I received my International Co. Greyhound and the thing is so much more beautiful in person. CrazyCloud honed and sharpened it.
While I don't have a brush yet, I decided to wet my right side jaw with cold water and give a couple little passes. Yesterday, I had employed better face prep. In shower, properly cleaned face, applied shave oil (menthol, clove, vit e and ?), messaged it in, performed a WTG pass with cartridge, rinsed, applied canned goo, massaged in, preformed XTG and ATG passes, rinsed, patted dry and applied my crummy Nivea AS. Maybe, the best shave I've had from a two blade cartridge. I contribute it all to taking care with more pre-shave prep.
To the straight:
That sound! It really impressed me of the sharpness of the instrument I had in hand. I didn't have that much growth today. While I was able to take four small WTG "swipes" down my right jaw with success, I'm probably going to back down and wait until the silvertip and soap arrive and proceed with a proper face prep... unless the curiosity grips me this evening.
As instructed by CrazyCloud, I will not bother stropping the razor until I've had a few shaves with it(strop hasn't arrived either).
I'm so glad I listened to advise and shopped SRP's Classifieds. Didn't want to get called an askhole :p