All razors bought from Classic Edge come professionally honed and a follow up honing is at no charge.
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When I started to learn to shave with a straight razor I had Phil hone a couple for me and even though I could not shave well at the time I did recognize that they were indeed shave ready. That is especially so when compared to my early attempts at honing my own. Hind sight is a wonderful thing.
There are many reasons a shave ready razor may not shave well in the hands of a beginner, been there myself, and range from the wrong angle, poor lather and poor stropping among others. When you get a shave ready razor the advice for a beginner is not to strop it before first use because poor stropping can degrade a shave ready edge. Very few at the start can strop truly well and that is from personal experience. If you then strop a shave ready razor before your second use of it and find the shave worse than the first use without stropping you have a pretty good indication that your stropping is not up to par.