Quote Originally Posted by Disburden View Post
When you strop is the strop at your waist height or is it hanging vertically somewhere?
I used to have it hanging in the closet but now I'm doing it at waist level. It seems a little easier this way.

I shaved again today after stropping many times. I tried to strop a bit quicker and not quite as lightly.

I think the razor felt slightly better today. There was less pulling but I didn't get as close a shave. This was because I started to see speckles of rust on my razor after awhile before I had a chance to shave over the spots with left-over stubble. I stopped shaving and put some oil on my razor. The rust spots don't really look that bad now. I have been trying to take especially good care of my razor because when I tried to take up straight shaving a couple months ago I didn't use oil on my old razor and got some rust on it (I also chipped it eventually).

I also noticed that the razor seemed sharper on the part of the blade near the shank of the razor. It's probably because I had been using mostly the end of the blade to shave previously. Maybe I need to try using all parts of the blade more evenly.

I think I will try a few strokes on the barber hone before next time, and see if that improves the shave.