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A plea to any experienced shavers in the lower mainland for help
So I kinda decided to make this a huge post about a bunch of different things instead of polluting the forum by starting a bunch of new threads. So first I'm going to start out with a picture of my set up, I have a 5/8 Dovo best quality, Edwin Jagger best badger brush, Merkur 33c safety razor, and finally Crabtree and Evelyn sienna shave soap. So here's what's going on I'm about 30-40 shaves in with the straight, and things are going fairly well. Up untill I've been going with 2-3 WTG passes and leaving it at that, a couple of days I tried my first XTG pass with my straight, something I guess I wasn't ready for cause I got razor burn like a hadn't experienced since my first shave with a safety razor almost 5 months ago. I'm thinking it was an issue of having too steep and angle, just need to flatten out the blade a little more maybe do a second WTG pass first to take the hair down a little more. My second issue is the blade I'm hopping this picture will show what I'm talking about the grind is not even on both side just wondering if that will effect further honing. Finally I know my stropping sucks there is a concave to leather of my strop, maybe 1.5-2mm which seems to create a problem keeping the strop taught pronounces the concave shape and prevents me from keeping even pressure across the blade and releasing the strop tension is inevitably going reduce the time between honing. So here's my request, if there is any experienced shavers in the lower mainland of B.C. who would be willing to test shave my razor, tell me if I'm doing more damage that good with my flawed stropping technique, possibly give me a little stropping lesson and if you are feeling really generous with their time help me paste one side of my webbing strop so I can do a little upkeep on my razor in between honing
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cheers
-Omid