Hi,
I know similar questions have been answered in other threads, but it seems to me that the gear you need depends largely on how deep you wanna get into the straight razor universe.

I own a nice Thiers Issard 6/8 Red stamina from classic shaving. I pretty much blunted it through bad stropping (I was putting too much pressure I think, then I used green strop paste on my nice Dovo leather strop and that screwed that up).

Anyway, from reading what I've read, it seems that I could hone the blade back into shape, and I would rather do it myself because I live in Finland, and sending my razor to and from the US is a pain.

So, what I gather is I need a hone, the one that seems appropriate is the Norton 4/8k, and a new strop, perhaps one of the 4 sided ones from Tony.

Is that all I need to get the blade up to scratch again?

I know classic shaving sell diamond paste for the hones, do I need that?

Basically I want the minimum amount of equipment, for example only one hone one strop etc, to cover all my basic needs, as I dont intend taking this up professionally.

If you could suggest a sort of pack of what I need (excluding brush and razor) i would really appreciate it.

Thanks a lot for your remarkable patience in answering all these naive questions, I never dreamed that straight razor shaving would be soooo complex.

Gavin.