Originally Posted by
JCitron
As has been said many times above it's all about the shave. If you're happy with the shave, great!
In my experience stropping made all the difference. I got my razor from a member here and then sent it to another member to be honed. The honed razor didn't pop hairs, either hanging or on my arm, but did shave wonderfully. Though at this time I didn't have a strop. A couple weeks later when I got the strop the first thing I did was give it a few passes, 10 or so, on the pasted side and then 20 or so passes on the non-pasted side. Let me tell you, it made all the difference. I was worried about rolling the edge since it was my first attempt stropping but when I ran the blade above my arm and heard those lovely "tink" sounds I smiled. Now the blade pops hair all along it's edge.