YAHQ (yet another honing question)

[TexasBob]

Boy am I sorry about this post, but the forum is here so I guess it's OK.

Question, where do I go from here? My goal is to maintain, pretty much indefinitely, razors received "shave ready" from established honemeisters.

I have the following:

• DMT325 for lapping
• Ardennes yellow Coticule with slurry stone
• A Swaty hone from eBay that I have successfully, I think, lapped with the DMT. (lots of work! All the pencil lines are gone.)
• Tony Miller four-sided honing paddle strop with 3.0, 1.0, 0.5, and 0.25 paste as supplied by TM.
• RupRazor El Toro strop with added fabric strop. (Noting pasted)
• And, probably redundant, a two-sided TI paddle strop with TI "Paste A" (0.25?) on the rough side.

In what order should these be used? Do I need something else? like a Norton 4k/8k? Maybe a finer finishing stone?

I have a Dovo "Black Star" razor from SRD about two months ago. I never did get a good shave from this, but I am sure that was because of bad shaving technique in the beginning, then perhaps bad stropping technique, and now just from two months worth of (mis?)use. I would like to bring this back to shave ready. What do I do?

Additional note: I also have a Double Arrow from RupRazor that I have had better luck with and can get a pretty decent shave from, so my technique, although still primitive I'm sure, is at least good enough to get a decent shave from a decent blade. I had the DA before the Dovo but stopped using it almost immediately when I got the Dovo, figuring the Dovo cost more so it should be better. It wasn't until I basically gave up on the Dovo that I went back to the DA and started getting better shaves.