Quote Originally Posted by Sunsi View Post
Sounds like a stupid question, but you did strop thoroughly after coming off the 10000 right?

Si (parents live in your neck of the woods, I grew up in Wootton Bassett)
Hmm, well I did strop, but maybe I didn't do enough. It was one of those things when you do something automatically (I've been stropping knives and axes forever, so don't think I was just stropping a razor without thinking!) but then can't remember how much/how long you've done.

I might give it a good thorough 50 stroke stropping tomorrow before I return to the waterstones.

(Good to see other Brits around. I'm only in Swindon for the year, though -- am I allowed to say "thank God"? ... I'm a Cornish lad at heart, and up to Cambridge this October.)