Quote Originally Posted by DMA View Post
Thanks for the generous welcome guys, and I am taking your comments on board.
I've spent hours researching everything from shaving to stropping and honing.
Fortunately I sharpen all my own Japanese style kitchen knives so I have some experience with using honing stones, and have a leather strop designed for kitchen knives which is unused, so until I get the paddle strop that is winging its way to meal one with other goodies, I thought that I could use that to ensure that the razor is shave ready for my first real shave.
Actually if your razor came to you shave ready you should NOT strop it before your first shave