NOOB to straight razor shaving
Hello all this is agreat site. I just recently completed my 3rd straight razor shave, 3 passes (WTG, XTG,and, ATG) even successfully completed the fools pass. I am definetly hooked ,since I have gotten the best closest shave in my life. I know they say that NOOBS should use a round point , but I am liking the square which I think is better for fine hair trimming , like under the nose. I have a dumb question do fine grit 16000 and 32000 ceramic stones need to be lapped ? I only want for now to do fine grit sharpening ; for heavy honing I plan to have my razor sent and done by someone else. Thus far my blade is staying very sharp with stropping and use the newspaper method once. I need to learn a lot about honing and it will take a while before I can purchase all the sharpening stones (ie, cost). I only right now have one straight razor which is a 5/8 reconditioned A. Whitte square point.