okay I am a few weeks into this Journey. So far things have been going well for me. I have started out slow, doing areas I was comfortable with, gradually doing more and mulitple passes. The odd little nic here and there but nothing that a cool splash of water and aftershave did not clear up.

Today however was a slightly different story. Grabbed my razor and went and did 20 passes on my whippeddog poormans strop. Then thought I would try my new homemade strop. Did 20+ laps on it and headed in for my shave. My pre-shave routine did not change. Coldwater bath on the face, towel dry, whip proraso into a lather, anotehr cold water spash, pat dry, lather face, massage lather into face, then relather.

On my first stroke. right side cheek, using right hand going down WTG. it was smooth as could be, no tugging or pulling at all, just a super smooth stroke. But 3 bleeders appeared, And we are not talking the typical little blossoms that you wipe away. I am talking blood running down my cheek from all 3 and still bleeding 35 minutes later.

I was going to switch razors but I thought Eff that. This Fili will not have the best of me. I finished up a complete multi pass shave with it not near BBS but they never are yet. still bleeding all over the place. Did my coldwater rinse and towl soak and spashed my ice Lime all over my face. Now normally with the Ice lime I get that second or two of sting/burning. today nothing, no sting no burn.

So is it posible that my stropping technique rolled an edge or left a jagged spot that carved me? Is it possible something was on the blade from stropping that although feeling super smooth casued the issue? If the blade was rolled or messed up should I have not felt a real burn from the ICED Lime?

Really at a loss on this one. Below is picture to show my home made strop for those that did not see in the strop section