My experience is that you have to learn both skills, honing and shaving, at the same time.
If you don't have a good technique, a "shave-ready" blade won't do much. Even more, if you're a beginner you can ruing a good edge on the strop really quick.
I started with a Dovo Shavette and a shave-ready Wapi. Immediately I bought a yellow coticule to maintain the Wapi, while I was working on my technique.
There've been times, when I was ready to quit, but I decided to stick with it.
I added a DMT-E and another Wapi (not shave-ready) and continued the learning process.
Three months later, I'm starting to get some results, I only use the Shavette for traveling and I'm able to maintain the edges sometimes better than others.
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Antonio
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