It would be good to consider all aspects of your shaving. The less variables there are, the easier it is to find a solution. I'm fairly new to stropping as well, so you should probably take what I say with a grain of salt. Having said that, I think that rolling an edge means that instead of having the razor perfectly flat on a perfectly flat strop, there is a slightly steeper angle being generated when you move the razor accross the surface. This could be from the spine of the razor coming off the strop, or there being too much slack in the strop. Either way, I think this "pushes" the edge of the razor up/curls it a little bit faster than the leather is taking metal off. Maybe a better way of putting it, taken to the extreme, would be to rake the razor perendicular to the strop. No doubt this would make for a relatively dull razor. So, the closer you get everything to perfectly flat, the sharper your razor will be. If you have figured out that you did something wrong, it might take a lot of correct stropping to get the edge back to where it needs to be to shave with it, depending on how dull it is. It might even take some honing. Or, your razor could be sharp and it's actually your prep. Or it could be both. I know it took some time for my face to adjust to shaving with a de/se, not to mention figuring out what works best for my face. I live in NW houston, but that might be too far away for you. But, hey, if all else fails, you can always send it off to be sharpened. What kind of razor do you have? Where'd you get it from? If you don't get an answer from anybody in austin, you can try and find somebody on the srp map and send a pm. Don't forget to search the forums high and low. Somebody else may have already answered this question somewhere.