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If honed professionally, it should give a presentable shave out of the box. Don't forget to wipe off the oil.
After my first shave with a new razor (professionally honed) I give it 15 passes on the .50 micron pasted paddle strop, then go to the canvass 25 passes/leather strop, 40 - 50 passes and wow, it feels sharper and smoother on the next shave.
Pabster
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Bazru,
Just carefully wipe of the oil and shave.
When you are truly new to the game it is so easy to do evil things to your razor when stropping :cry: I know !
For my second shave with my Wapi (first strop), I not only chewed the strop up, but I rolled the edge of the razor !!
Blueprinciple kindly re-honed the Wapi for me, and sent me a beater razor to practice stropping with. That set me on the road to happiness !!
Best regards
Russ