Quote Originally Posted by supersco View Post
Are you shaving with a factory edge, or did you have it honed by a professional?

Also, stropping correctly takes a lot of time to learn I've found, but it is essential that it's done correctly.
I got two razors, same steel, one from Vintage Blade LLC and the other order 3 weeks latter from SRD (with the life time honing). Both proffecionally hone for shave ready.

It is a good learning tool, to have two razors. I use one for comparison when the other strart messing and pulling my beard. Then I go back and strop some more or like I did a week ago , refresh the blade.

My stropping is not all there for me yet. I can honestly say that out of 10 strops maybe 6 or 7 are good, where I can hear the same sound up and down. Other times is not even or spine comes up a bit on one side (that's when I try to go faster). So I slow down and go at it again. The blade I use for comparisson (SRD) have only been used three times and I'm carefull with the stropping.

I want to thank Lynn and crew for kepping up this forum. Without it I wouldn't have started str8 shaving. And I whant to thank also all of you who participate on this forum. Because with out participation the learning curve would be much steeper than it is. I also know better, to listen to sound advice, even do I will like to start honing, I'm patiently holding back till I have at least a year of good shaving and stropping. In the mean time, I'll keep reading, watching videos and learning. Thank you again Double O