Now I'm sure... After shaving with straight razor for a few months and after I just learned how to hone it right I discovered there is something wrong with my stropping technique. Lately I rehoned my Dovo Best Quality, I used pyramid on Norton 4k/8k starting from 15 strokes. The shave was very nice without stropping. Second shave was faaar worse (I stropped before it). From one shave to the next one it is getting worse and worse to the point I hate shaving with my straight. It's getting duller. It shaves but not close enough and it needs far too many strokes. Please look at the video and listen to the sound of my stropping. What's wrong with it? YouTube - Stropping