A properly honed and shave ready razor gives an awesome shave. I had resisteded honing one of my razors for about 70 shaves and I just used my pasted strop to keep it sharp. It still gave good shaves, but it took a lot of technique to avoid small weepers in getting a BBS shave. Lately, I could always count on 1 or 2 small weepers for each shave with that razor.

I finally gave in, honed it, and it shaved like a dream without any threat of a weeper.

Recently, I used a Mach 3 after not touching one for 2 years. It just couldn't get that close of a shave like a straight razor. So I cleaned up the shave with the straight razor and laughed at how when I first started out, I used the Mach 3 to clean up my straight razor shave and here I am using a straight razor to clean up the Mach 3 shave.

Glad to hear your new razor got you a great shave. Many, Many more to come....

Pabster