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05-13-2010, 08:55 AM #1
First of all welcome!
Thats a great starter kit and will definately serve you well. As it comes from SRD it will definately be shave ready and you'll be on your way in no time.
In terms of hones and pasted strops, dont worry about them for now. Learn to shave first and then start looking into the hones, pastes and honing later. Its quite common when people start to get a sub optimal shave due to inexperience, but to think its the razor and then get tempted to try out that new hone or pasted strop.
There are a fair few threads here along the lines of "I got this shave ready razor, but it would shave so well/wouldnt pass the HHT/pulled when I shaved so I did a pyramid on my hones/stropped it on my pasted strop and now it wont shave anything. What do I do?"
There are plenty of dynamics to the shaving part (stropping, lathering and the actual shave) to keep you busy without adding the extra element of honing. You're doing things the right way by starting with a known edge, and that'll keep you shaving for a good few weeks to months.
If you havent already, check out the SRP Wiki and other articles linked in my sig line below as they are very useful.
Good luck and keep us posted!