Well the first one went rather well so I was excited for the second one last night but the results were not so good.

This time I needed to strop the razor which I think may have killed the edge. The strop is new, just took it out of the sealed bag. I noticed that there seem to be waves in the leather. If I lay the razor on the strop there are many places where only part of the razor is touching the strop.

Do these things need to be broken in first or something? All the strops I've seen in video's demonstrating seem to be softer and people are able to keep the razor flush across it with little pressure and hardly any effort. The only way I would be able to keep my razor evenly flush with the strop would be to apply quite a bit of pressure with each stroke in order to flatted the strop. I was under the impression that not much pressure is needed here.