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What do you use when preparing a new blade for a shave?

Do I have to "restore" a brand new razor? And for a completely new person less might be better when grinding on their blade?

This is the hone as best i can tell. Colonel Ichabod Conk Straight Razor Stone

Why do you like one strop over another?

so if I picked up this strop. Do I need anything else like conditioner for the leather?

And what about the stops made out of other materials like canvas or wool?

Thanks all for the help.
what I got as a gift was this big box of peach color bars of soap, a badger brush, I have no idea the quality, it says Raiser Pinsel pinceau a barbe with a 1000 which...

Brands? links? Personal preferences and why?

I just recieved a straight razor for christmas. But they just bought me a hone of some sort, it wasn't marked.

What is a good strop, that is a good value?

They gave me a c-mon caddy knife...