I posted the following over at bladeforums:
I ordered a new straight razor it arrived yesterday along with the brush. The item was as described handle is steel+wood handle and the razor/blade is steel as well. The blade is a straight blade not the curved one I washed the blade and tried shaving but this thing just isn't cutting I tried every possible angle and pressure but nothing. I tried against and with the grain nothing : /

I even tried shaving some hair on the arm but it's just not cutting at all. However the blade does feel sharp to the touch when I press on it with my finger.

What I have in my disposal is a sharpening stone, sharpening file both for kitchen knifes and I have few straps of Japanese tooling leather some are regular some are vegetable treated and off course the old
military leather belt.

I tried 100 swaps on the tooling leather and the blade is just not as sharp to cut when you pull against the direction of hair growth even if I apply pretty decent pressure I don't want to hit it with a stone to ruin the blade. What are my options ?
They told me to come here. I'm a novice at all this I tried a shave with a straight razor before using my grandfathers and I loved it but after my grandfather passed however was packing up the house seems to have thrown it away. I found a very similar model on a Japanese store all steel (I did not like what you get in some barber stores wood+blade or plastic+blade it feels way to light) on this one both handle and blade are steel and pretty heavy to the touch.

I paid 599$ for the razor and then some 200$ for oils, brush and what no but did not get a strop. The razor feels very sharp to the touch but won't cut hair regardless of pressure. I was pretty disappointed that this is not shave ready.

Question: Is there anything I have or could have at my disposal that could help me sharpen this thing up, up to a point where I could use it for a shave ?

Otherwise what is my best option, (I was thinking of taking it to a local work shop that sharpens knifes for restaurants see if they can help me out) ? I'm central EU with no local honemeister to take this to, closest one I found was UK the postage makes it some 120$ for two way shipping + then some 20-70$ for sharpening, which is not that big of a problem if this is a once a year thing. But this again means sending it then waiting up to a month to get the thing back so I was thinking of possibly joust keeping this one as eye candy and buying a new one in some 80-150$ range that's shave ready but not sure which one to pick.