well my grandpa is going to bring me a very good quality razor, a strop, and a hone. I want to straight shave but i also want to learn all about it and learn how to hone on my own instead of having someone else do it for me. Id rather learn everything that i possibly can. and i know i have read a lot of information on the straight and watched a lot of videos and i have a good idea of how to go about it.