Hey guys i just bought my first straight razor a 5/8 Genco Henry's X Full Hollow.

well when i received it i did the arm hair test and one off my head and it wasn't cutting through them, however im still inexperienced, so i though well il give it a try and see.

considering it was my first shave i was expecting to cut myself. I did the preparation and gave myself a while to practice. I stropped it on a leather belt and shaved, only nicked myself 3 times nothing too bad mainly on my ears lol gotta work on that.

Well its been 5 days, i have been shaving everyday to practice not something i do all the time just my neck and side of my face because i normally wear a chin strap beard/ goatee.

I have been doing fairly well not expecting too much to start and haven't been nicking myself too much. I have been dong three passes WTG but it still feels stubbly, when i try to shave ATG i can't like i have to apply a lot of pressure to be able to and that worries me.

I think my razor is not sharp enough because when i shave WTG i still get resistance and feel a little drag. Also not sure if this is a reason or not but i have pretty coarse hair.

I currently have a 1000 minosharp, 6000 king, and a 16000 shapton glass waterstones, i have been holding off honing because im still new but i think i need to do it.

should i just go with the 6k and 16k then strop? or take it down to the 1k as well?