I am on shave 13-14 or so and I haven't had any cuts or anything for the last three shaves which is good, but for the last three shaves i have been hanging my strop on a drawer in my office which is much lower than the door knob I was using before.

I suspect that something changed in my stropping that has dulled my razor. Thinking back to my stropping today, i was applying a decent amount of pressure with my thumb to hold the razor against the strop when drawing the blade back to myself. This would be the thing that changed the last 3 times i stropped.

I hung my strop back on my door knob and did about 30 laps or so. When stropping this way, i apply virtually no pressure. I am letting the razor's weight do all of the 'work'. This seems to work ok, but because i am such a newbie, I am not sure i have anything to compare it against. I am not sure what the draw is supposed to feel like. I have a filly strop.

My plan is to strop it really well and shave with it. If it still pulls, then I am going to do 7 passes on the pasted side of my filly and strop it and shave with it. If that doesn't work, then i will send my razor back to get my free honing. Does that sound like a reasonable plan? I really hope i don't have to send my razor to be honed because I don't want to wait that long! I considered ordering another razor to use in the meantime, but I am not sure what the effects of that will be on domestic tranquility.

Thoughts?