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12-30-2013, 04:02 PM #1aka shooter74743
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Follow Lynn's advice, he's a master at our sport. Only thing I would add is you must strop your razor after a shave or the edge will go to crap possibly overnight. I personally strop 40x after a shave and 60x before a shave, this obviously adds up to a 100x stropping to the blade before it touches my face. You can't overstrop a razor.
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12-30-2013, 04:09 PM #2Senior Member
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Only if you know how to strop a blade
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12-30-2013, 05:00 PM #3Senior Member
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.I agree, learn to strop.
Unfortunately stropping is not as easy as it appears and nothing like you see on TV or in the Movies. It only takes lifting the spine a fraction before you stop moving the blade, one time to damage the edge and that will remove a layer of skin leaving you face red and raw.
Dollars to Wantons that is what happened.
Buy you self some inexpensive magnification, as little as 2-3 dollars and look at the edge as described in this video.
this video
If the edge is damaged it will need to be repaired and the extent of the damage will determine the extent of repair.
It does take some time to learn to strop, and you need to learn to strop to maintain your razor.
I am a bit far from you, but if damaged I would be happy to re hone it for you, PM me if you are interested.
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It's probably a newbie issue or a stropping issue.
From reading many newbie posts, it seems like issues usually pop up around shave 3-5 (it did for me), you start getting over confident and stop watching pressure and angle as closely and also stropping wrongly could have had an effect on the edge by this time. Practice stropping with a dull razor shaped object ( a butter knife will work) to learn some muscle memory. Watch the videos and don't rush the process, I thought I had it down by about shave 20, but I realized at about shave 60 that I didn't.
Also try to find someone to look at the blade just in case you did roll the edge when stropping
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