just had another attempt!

did 50 passes on canvas first followed by 50 on leather, and paid attention to technique resisting the temptation to go faster as felt comfortable with it and keeping the spine in contact at ALL times.

I'm still not getting the bite into the ball of the thumb mind but certainly sharper, now have my first small nick to prove it ;-)

the shave was noticeably better this time, much less pulling and even managed to shave my neck too this time, only leaves my goatee area which i'll try once i've had a few more successful shaves

so next question is: can you over strop? based on the improvement i got after this mornings stropping i'm thinking it needs quite a bit more to get it to full shave readiness but i don't want to make matters worse now by doing too much if thats possible?

thx again guys, feeling much happier today, what a difference day makes! (there's a song in there somewhere)