I've been at this since the start of the new year, and I've acquired three, nice razors that shaved great when I got them. All were made shave-ready by tenured members here. I finally got to the point where I no longer was consistently nicking myself, and the shaves were great, but now I'm running into razor burn and a hint of pulling, and I'm beginning to think the razors need to be tuned up a bit. Would more experienced straight users make the same assessment? For some reason I think it might be too soon for the razors to need a tune up, but I don't have a benchmark here, so I'm a bit lost.

If that's the case and it sounds like they need to be tuned up, should I take the TM practice strop and turn it into a pasted strop?

I have an unlapped Norton, but I don't want to learn to use it on three razors that are great shavers...not to mention it's not lapped, and I don't have a finishing stone.

Thanks!