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stropping - no, honing - in general depends, you'll be fine.

infortunately more common than I wish it is, that's usually enough to make me take a pass on a razor (unless it's rare one that I...

yep - the honing wear is rather large and uneven, plus the rust on the edge looks a bit scary from the picture, but for practice should be no problem. At least at this point there's not much worse...