Thread: Getting more drag from:Straight Razor Designs Premium 1 Leather

So I got my order from SRD a norton 4/8 stone and moduler paddle with chromium paste for the scrub leather.Went through all the steps lapping the stone on 400 grit sandpaper,pasting the scrub leather and oiling the smooth leather with the neats foot oil 3 times over 3 days.Honing my Imperial razor went well,nice even bevel and a mirror edge after running over the pasted scrub leather.The thing is when I stropped on the smooth leather,50 passes,I felt no drag.So I'm puzzled as to whether it did anything for the blade or not?

Previous to this I was honing on an old hard ark stone and stropping with a belt treated with mink oil and hung on a towel rack.When I stropped this way I could hear and feel the drag.Have I been shaving off the paste or is the new strop doing it's job even though I can't feel it or hear it?Should I use some pressure to make the paddle flex like a hanging strop?Putting pressure on an old blade scares me.

Or would using some mink oil get the feedback I'm looking for?

Either way thanks Lynn for the tools to get this old razor to shave for me!Next will be a new razor from SRD.