OK, I'm on my tenth or twelfth shave.... Whatever, I've lost count. Anyway, my shaves are adequate enough to not stop straight shaving but not nearly as smooth as you guys say you are getting, such as "baby but smooth. " so, I just recently found out the whole letting your razor set for 24 hours thing is complete BS and I can sharpen that bad boy any time I would like, even during shaving, so that's exactly what I did. Stropped.... Shaved untill blade was covered in lather, gave one quick pass, then repeated. Clean blade.... One pass.... Clean blade... One pass... Ect. Now, it goes without saying that, that happened to be the smoothest shave ever lol. But something telling me two things.
1) this shouldn't need to be done, and I'm probably doing something wrong, and number
B) Shooter is now going to yell at me again lol.