I'm a newbie all over again.

[Scootch]

Kyle,
As yu saw the focus of the groups is different. The straight razors guys sink their main money into razors, followed by strops and stones. Most have only a few, if not just one reasonably priced brush. You will find that our razors are far more expensive.

The DE guys seem to have no problem dropping big $$ on multiple brushes and expensive creams but sem to freak out if a razor sells for over $25 or they can't buy the blades in a group buy for next to nothing <g>.

We both spend a mint but in different directions.

Tony

True Tony, true. One razor, one strop and two stones I paid almost $500. My brush was $50. I'm happy with the brush but want a new razor - not that anything's wrong with this one, but there's other ones out there - and they're all so pretty.