If you purchased your straight razor from Vintage Blades, it would have been honed and shave ready. All of VB's straight razors are honed by Lynn Abrams, the founder of Straight Razor Place.

As noted previously, you may have damaged the edge while stropping. Get it honed again. In the meantime, remove the nicks in your strop with some fine grit sandpaper; and practice your stropping technique with a dull table setting knife.

You don't need to bear down on the strop to maintain the edge. The strop should be about waist level. Go slow at first. Apply light pressure, using the weight of the razor itself to hold it on the strop.