Evening and Salutations

[Stubear]

Welcome!

Both those kits you got are excellent and the vendors are well known and respected, so no worries there.

If you live in an particularly humid place I'd recommend oiling the blade, or if you live near a lake or the sea, but you dont generally need to oil the razor unless its going into longer term storage.

What I do after the shave is rinse the blade (taking care to ONLY get the blade wet), wipe it with tissue then strop 15 laps on fabric and 30 laps on leather to get any remaining micro gunk off the edge.

Then I put a piece of tissue between the scales to dry in there and make sure no water got in there (a very common cause of rust) then wipe down the whole razor, scales and all, to remove any finger grease before storing it.

If you do oil the razor, make sure you've wiped it all off before stropping and shaving. The razor should only be oiled for storage, nothing else, so make sure its oil free for stropping, shaving and, when you get to that point, honing.

In terms of how much to strop and on what, I do 30 fabric and 60 leather before the shave, then 15 fabric and 30 leather afterwards. This works very well for me.

Have a read of the Beginners Guide linked in my sig line below as this will answer a lot of your questions about the first shave and care of the razor. Anything you're not sure about though, please feel free to ask..!

Welcome to the site, and to a better way of shaving!