I've got a stainless steel SR. When it arrived about a month ago, it was "shave ready".

I use a 3" Artisan "New Standard" Strop by one Tony Miller before every shave, as directed.
I also have a Thiers-Issard Double-Sided Sharpening Strop that came as part of a kit with a green and red paste, to help sharpen my razor.

Since I've received my SR, I've never honed it. It came "shave ready" which means it was both honed & stropped. I've used it maybe only 3 or 4 times since I received it.

While I have been stropping it before every shave with the 3" Artisan New Standard Strop, I find the blade is not as sharp as I'd like it to be. I've done the single hair strand test (and yes I realize this test is not definitive as to whether or not your blade is sharp enough; some people like to either feel the blade with their thumb or even run it lightly over the hairs on their arms to see if it easily cuts them off) but it doesn't cut the hair. I've also run the blade along my arm hairs and it cuts them, but it also pulls the hair quite a bit before cutting them (that's not comfortable on your face; when it pulls the hairs).

I recently tried using the Thiers-Issard Double-Sided Sharpening Strop with a little of the red paste on it, in an effort to sharpen it but all that seemed to do was make a red messy goo on my blade. After supposedly sharpening my blade with this red paste on the smaller strop, I rinsed the red paste off (which also raised a concern of toxicity if some got left behind on the blade, and I started to shave with it and accidentally nicked myself.)

Is it time to hone my blade (I also have the Norton 4k/8k combo; a part of the kit I mentioned above but I think I need to lap it first according to the FAQ section), only after 1 month?

Bottom line is, it's not as sharp as when I got it. Something definitely needs to be done. Any ideas?