I just shaved my second time. I let my beard grow over the weekend and just shaved it. I strop around 30 times.. basically until it feels like its a suction.. then i did the same thing for the cotton. I made sure I lathered enough on my face, until i couldn't see my beard any more basically.. well.. i started shaving.. going down my face seemed ok..(still had some long hairs going down) but when i went against the grain it felt like the hair was giving my razor a hard time :-\ It did this the first time i shaved too.. And I have to go over the spot over and over like its not cutting it.(not all the time) Is it not sharp enough? Am I not strop it enough or wrong? (away from the blade, i've seen the youtube videos) The razor will cut my hair that I put on it to see if its sharp. It also hurts when i shave like i'm getting a TOO close of a shave. I see blood but no cuts.. well not all the time and only does it on my neck mainly, and no razor burn. I relathered myself when it gets dry.. The tricky spots seem to be my neck and the curves :-\.

I was told my razor was honed. I bought it from classicshaving.com I asked for the honing service but got a call from them saying it was prehoned by them and got a refund. I'm probably doing something wrong.

Anyone have an idea.. I'm going to shave next weekend(when I can grow the hair a little).