Hi Everyone

I've been SR shaving about two months and so far everything has gone very well. Recently I purchased a Ralf Aust and have run into something a little unusual. I assume I'm stropping correctly since the first razor I purchased; from SRD, is still giving me top notch performance and I used that one every day over a month before I acquired more razors to rotate through my shaves. I've used the Aust twice and did not notice this happening, but recently I began stropping this razor in preparation for my next shave and noticed small flakes of leather sticking to the blade. I thought maybe I did something wrong, wiped off the blade, and started again. Again; I noticed flakes of leather on the blade in the same three places. Repeated again just to be sure and got the same result. I examined the edge under a 30x loupe and cannot see any obvious reason for this, but again I've only been handling straights a couple months.

Any ideas about why this is happening? I've used eight or nine other 'vintage' blades over the last month and have not seen this happen with any of them.

TIA

Gill