Quote Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl View Post
At first Welcome to SRP.
At the moment there is no way someone could tell what was your exact problem.
Your blade was shave ready?
or your stropping dull the blade
or your honing.
Please don't get me wrong.
i have no doubts about your sharpening ability.
The razors are a little different then another tools when you sharpen them.
This is why So many people (mostly knife sharpeners)
when start to hone blade they get a little confused.
do you have only 1 razor?
if answer yes please do contact the seller and i am sure they will take care of it.
if you do have another razor and you are unable to get your blade sharpened by vendors then i would be gladly take a look at your razor.
(it is free you have to only pay for postal stamp.)
About the stropping.
please check this post and there is a video take a look it may help.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...technique.html

not first video scroll down you will see.
About your stones.
i don't think you would be able to get your blade shave ready condition (true shave ready) what you have at the moment.
6000 is way low grit.
Let me know.
thank you and enjoy with straight razor shaving.
First off, thank you to all for your advice. I'm a bit unsure if this is replying to all or one so I hope I clicked on the right thing. I take no offense to not sharpening a razor properly or the stropping. I'm new to this level of edge sharpness and expect to be on a learning curve for a while. I live in Duluth, Mn and will try to update my profile soon.

I'm not sure that I can get a quality picture of the edge as I can't see any thing with my eye, maybe if I had some type of microscope?

I got the razor from classicshaving.com because I saw guys suggesting to use their sharpening service when buying the first razor. I thought the "professionally" honed razors was them honing it but maybe I should have asked them and it wasn't. I'll contact them and ask.

I don't feel like I put too much pressure on the blade when stropping. I'm just grasping at things to understand why its going dull. (since I did shave ok the first time I figure it's my stropping, either too light or hard) I think I will try the table method Gugi. Thank you very much for your generous offer to look at it Hi Bud gl. If all else fails and the vendor won't look at it I may take your offer but I'm sure they will as they advertise a sharpening service.

Maybe I just don't strop enough. I did cut my thumb pad quick and deep by accident opening it the other day so it is sharp to a point Being a newbie, all the videos in the world are no match for personal instruction but I will be viewing more for sure until I get this. I'll try the 50/50 laps and let you guys know if it worked.