I would give my right arm to eliminate the term "shave-ready". Instead I would apply the term "strop-ready".

If you believe, as I do, that a razor's edge is actually applied with a strop and not by honing then you can see lots of opportunities for the classic problem of "but it's supposed to be shave-ready". Really? How did it get from honed to shave-ready? In the mail? Did the postman strop it for you? No, probably not.

I was reading an instructionable (sic) on knife honing (to a level of shave-readiness) yesterday and it said to oil a leather belt and strop the knife on the oiled leather for "as long as your patience would allow". I thought that was funny, and yet, deeply important.