Originally Posted by
yoshida
I bought a Straight that was suppose to be shave ready and it wasn't so I had to learn how to hone. Not that it bothered me a lot because I truly think there are no advantages in starting with a shave ready razor and that is because when you strop you will dull it and you don't really know how a razor should feel because you can't get the angles right when starting. So, I believe one should learn how to hone and when one thinks he knows how to do it, (by getting decent shaves), then buy a shave ready razor from a reliable source to compare.:shrug: Of course that's my way of seeing things!
(I know it wasn't shave ready because I did prep properly, use to do it for DE, and I used it without stropping because the guy that sold it to me said he had already done that and no matter how I tried it just didn't shave properly. Also it didn't cut my arm air)