Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
I never try to convince anyone to try a straight, though I have set up a few people who expressed interest on their own. However, I regularly encourage people to try a safety razor and for that reason I buy any decent ones that I can find for under $5. Almost all have become converts.

Because your friend never tried the safety razor, I will speculate that he might try it once, find it to be difficult, and then give up. I don't know the guy but if he was not interested in trying the safety razor you sent him, then I doubt he is interested enough to out the effort into a straight.

I hope I am wrong.

I also hope you eventually get your strop back relatively intact!
Ron, if I get the strop back intact or not isn't important, at least he agreed to give learning this age old art a try. That's something that he didn't do with the DE/SE's. Those are still sitting at his place somewhere Unused.

He had expressed displeasure with the way of shaving he'd been using and that's why I've offered him alternatives.

As my dad used to say; :You never know till you try".