Originally Posted by
DMA
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.