Im going to give you my two cents, hopefully without invoking any off topic arguments. I cannot speak for Revisor I understand that it is a quality blade I own none. I can speak about Ralf Aust frenchpoint worked spine as I have this razor and enjoy it but I would not recommend it for someone new to straight razor shaving very good blade slightly unbalanced and might take some time for you to get used to it and has a bit of danger on its far end. I would highly recommend its little brother the 5/8 round point I own this also and i think its spectacular. Yeah its not as pretty but very keen very comfortable to shave and hold I really enjoy it. As far as strops My favorites are bridle and latigo the bridle has very little draw and mine sometimes feels like im stropping on ice and you can strop very fast. If you are new you dont want to go very fast you want to keep in control of the blade through the stropping motion Latigo achieves that for me due to its much heavier draw it forces you to go slow it has a lot of feedback and it is easier to tell if you are stropping well the bridle again excellent but it may take more effort on your part to keep things together. Your choice of hones might be fine if you knew a bit about honing again I dont think those stones would be my first choice i believe they will just confuse you. A way foward might be to just paste your linen strop with chromium oxide and learn to maintain your razor next get a fine grit finishing hone maybe a shapton or naniwa or spyderco uf or something along those lines and learn to bring your edge back. You can keep that razor alive for many months this way by that time you will have learned to strop and most importantly shave and have some sense what is good and bad about a razors condition. Then if you need to get a set of hones and learn them. Vendor wise again I can only speak from my experience SRD, Classic Edge, Vintage Blades, and Invisible Edge all have provided very shave ready razors and top notch customer service to me. Good luck and enjoy your new stuff.