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thanks for the tips guys! updates to help narrow the problem down:

Blade: after getting it shave ready from a reputable supplier AND honed from a reputable blade restoration company, I'm...

shave prep: umm wet face from shower (washed in there with face stuff) and then thick lather.

place I had it honed/stropped: Ross Cutlery
(both ross and classicshaving said I didnt need to strop...

I wanted to get into straight razor shaving so I grabbed myself a nice DOVO ebony kit with a tony miller strop, honed shaved ready by classicshaving.com with some taylor of old bond street shaving...