So I started straight shaving about a week ago, and have been shaving every day since. My first shave I made the mistake of angling the spine too far from the face, and though the shave was super close, I got razor burn bad and dulled my blade as well. I stropped with my friends cheap strop that he bought for reasons unknown and had just been hanging in his room for a couple years with no use being that he doesn't grow facial hair. Any way, his strop started cracking even though I had oiled it with a light natural oil, and even rubbed it down real nice like with my palms. After that first stropping session I conceded to using the nylon side and then moved to paper which is a pain because it is so short. That seemed to work alright, and I figured it would be good enough until my big daddy strop came in, but there was a mix up with shipping not sure how it happened, but I am sure it was my stupid computer's fault (need to reformat.) But alas, my last shave sucked, The bladed pulled to much to go against the grain, and even across the grain was irritating. I feel overall confident in my shaving technique in the moment aside fro the tip of my chin maybe, but I feel I am no longer shaving in such a way as to prematurely dull the blade. So, my question (after my rant of a background,) is to whether or not I should do a touch up hone, or just to an excessive nylon then paper wrapped block session and then go crazy when my strop finally arrives.
Thanks for the input, kinda been learning from trial and error so far been too impatient to wait for answers thus far, but this one doesn't involving anything remotely exciting so I should be able to restrain myself lol.