Hello everybody. As stated in a previous post I was planning on trying my first straight razor shave this saturday. Well, my battalion got lucky and we got today off as well! ( It is friday on my side of the world ). Anyways, I went ahead and tried my new razor out. Let me start out by saying that it shaved, but it pulled and tugged just about as much as my mach 3 razors. From what I have been reading on this forum, it needs to be honed, and isn't shave ready as they advertised it. I bought it on amazon, and just got lucky that I received a good quality razor instead of one of the knock offs. I'm just wanting to make sure I am right in assuming that it needs to be honed before I try to do that using the honeing process that Lynn has on youtube with the norton 4k/8k.