I did everything the same this morning as my last 3 or 4 highly successful shaves, but I just couldn't get comfortable (or get beard to disappear), so I decided that slow was good and gave it up and finished with my cartridge razor. I was really struggling....maybe it was my lather, maybe my stropping (although that's been having much better results), and maybe the razor (I used the R. Aust 6/8, and have been using the 5/8). Anyway, I did a good cleaning and stropping of the 6/8 post shave, and will try the 5/8 next time. My soap was the same (Pre de Provence) as was my other prep. I'm just writing it off as a bad hand-eye coordination day.