Billy, your blade is probably best to be sent at someone who will hone it for you. I suggest you take X's offer, and start with properly honed blade. And I strongly suggest you buy a Shavette type razor, like the DOVO's on classicshaving page, to get the moves, thechnique and the feel for straight razor. It will be usefull on travels later on... And do a lots of reading trough the honing and stroping forum here, as well as the files in the help galery


Nenad