Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
When you get that new razor just be very careful when you strop, don't ruin the edge.
thebigspendur makes a great point here.

I thought my new GEO Trumpers (made by Dovo) 5/8" was shave ready and it wasn't. So I set to with the strop and made it a lot worse (had to go back to my Merkur DE for a couple of days).

As no-one in the UK offers a honing service, I bought a Norton 4k/8k hone a did it myself (very carefully), then back to the strop (very carefully), then a test shave (very carefully). No good, repeat as necessary.

It took me over a week to undo the damage I did with my first stropping.