Thanks everyone for the feedback! I did 2 WTG passes today and that went very well! I still needed to do a quick pass ATG with a bic to get my face work appropriately shaved but that was mostly for my jawline and chin so pretty happy.

How hard is honing really? I keep reading things about how easy it is to mess up your razor, but I'm not going to send my razor off every couple of months to get honed. Thus am going to have to learn sometime. I assume much like everything else seems to have been, stories are puffed up a bit so that the new guys like me think and slow down before ACTUALLY doing any damage.

Again thank you to everyone that replied your input is very helpful and welcome.

Nic