First off, thank you all for taking your time to give your feed back.

I understand angles are everything. The smoothest area to shave is from my side burn to under my jaw, since I can get a good stretch there. This is what I use as my bench mark. With my shavette I can take long smooth strokes. Along with a 30 degree bevel to my face, I also use a 15-40 degree slicing angle. The shavette seems to cut fairly smooth. My first shave with with the freshly honed, unstropped blade did not glide at all down my cheek. Nor did the hairs get cut as short.

Aside from the feel of the shave I have no way of knowing if my stropping is adversly effecting my blade. I've had 4 shaves now, so I've stropped 3 times. I don't dismiss the fact that I may be stropping wrong but it still feels the same to me. And I didn't strop before my first shave. I'm confident SRP did a good job.

I would imagine for all of you this would be like me trying to help someone install a set of double french doors through email. Haha. It can get somewhat frustrating. Thank you all. Any other feedback is greatly apprectiated. I think responded to all the posts. I'm sorry if I missed someones point.