I previously posted a thread on using two razors during a shave and I received a number of responses from site veterans suggesting I might have an issue with proper honing. The razors in question came as part of a trade on another shaving site and they were advertised as shave ready. I just received a razor I purchased here as shave ready and after that experience I can honestly say there was a night and day difference. How many places is the advice restarted here "have a new razor professionally honed"? Save yourself the agony I put myself through and listen-it's a pain to defer gratification but a bigger one to assume you have just purchased some rather expensive junk and need to go back to the tracX devise and forget the whole thing.