Paddle strop questions, or what the heck did I do?
I tried using my paddle strop to put a better edge on my razor. I think I have made a huge mistake. The grit isn't very "even" on the strop, so you can feel different patches of roughness vs smoothness.
Anyway, I used it on the .5, then just the leather, and when I hold up the blade and look perpendicular, (spine on bottom, edge on top, looking with the blade in front of me left to right, it's not smooth anymore. ridges, valleys, ups, downs, it looks terrible. If I drag it across my thumbnail on the back, it catches and skips and jumps, instead of nice and smooth and digging in like it used to.
So I thought I'd start on the 2 micron side, and work my way down to the .5. The problems' getting worse not better. Now if I run my fingernail from the spine to the edge, I can feel something "catch" right at the edge, like it's "rolled" over, or somesuch.
What am I doing wrong? I think I killed it.
WHen I strop with the paddle, should yellow goop be coming off pretty constantly? Or is it supposed to be rubbed into the surface, and it's just "loose" stuff coming off?
Help! Thanks.