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Its possible that as someone new to stropping you miscued and dulled the edge slightly. To be honest I'd recommend sending it back to SRD and using the free honing they give you rather than trying to...

The only real test is the shave test. Thats the only way to tell if the blade is a good shaver.

I have a Boker I got from SRD and all I had to do was strop and shave. That razor passed the HHT...