One month later, stropping between passes?
Hi everybody. After a month of regularly shaving (ONLY) with the SR, I must say that it's being a very satisfactory process. I rarely have a real cut, maybe a few blood spots here and there and razor burn sometimes, but mostly a clean shave everytime, though it's always easier if I let my beard grow 3-4 days.
I'm depeloping my stropping tecnique as well, my latigo has 2 small nicks on the very edge, so fortunately they don't compromise a proper stropping, they don't bother me at all. It's a black latigo, and I've realised that after stropping, if I clean the edge with toilet paper, it lets some black residue on it, I guess it's normal but I want to be sure.
Another thing is that stropping gets a real fine edge on my razor (usually 30 strokes), but sometimes in the second pass I feel that it becomes a little dull when I go ATG (the moment when I think it should be sharper). To fix this problem I strop after the first pass 15 times more or less, and the blade gets ready for the second pass, but I'm not really sure if that's correct, having read about "let the blade rest after shaving etc,...". Is it normal? Am I doing anything wrong? Thanks gentlemen!