I am now 3 months into straight shaving and loving the experience. I find myself frequently having to strop my edges with .5 chromuim oxide on rough side of the strop to refresh the edge to get a really comfortable shave on my upper lip.

For me, the sharpness test is ATG on my lip. In order to get close and comfortable with this pass, I find myself having to make 5 or 6 passes on the cr. ox. strop, then normal 50 -60 laps on the smooth leather. The results are great, but my question is, is there any down side to doing this?

I have a 7 day set I use primarily, so it's not like I'm having to do this every day, but I only get about 2 to 3 shaves per razor before I'm back to the pasted strop.

I suspect angle of shave may have some bearing, but I am getting no burn and very desirable results with my technique.

Dave