i think jim has the half-hollowed dovo
Vintage*Blades*LLC*::*Dovo...
as far as your picture, that's big dense beard, but not sure if that is the same as rough/hard/coarse. but i'd think that more beard to cut means more work for the razor.
as for the rest of it, yes you need to buy a strop right away, hone not.
and good soap with brush helps a lot. it's not really expensive - the tweezerman brush seems to be well liked and it's 10-15 bucks and for a soap i quite like colleen's at thegentlemensquarter
hair conditioner works well before shaving, esp. if you shave after the shower as i do (don't use hair conditioner though, as i'm lazy but i've tried it).
art of shaving is generally more expensive than classicshaving. the first only sells one model razors made for them by thiers-issard. i think these are the cheapest model, but i may be wrong. again the prices have been going up and i don't follow them much. the one that alan linked is the only stiff grind thiers-issard razor, you can't buy it AoS even if you wanted.
Add honing service to the prices you see at AoS. Most of us here shave with razors that are much sharper than what comes out of the factory.