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    Default Fix the Skipping Razor

    Is your razor skipping? Fix it! Use a taut strop and apply just a little more pressure stropping than you used before. Then, shave again, using a lower angle. Viola!

    Easy as pie.
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    This fix specifically applies to a razor thats skipping because its just barely not sharp enough, right? but cant a skipping razor be caused by technique issues like too much pressure?

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    I have damaged blades using too much pressure so use only slightly more pressure. I have had more succes giving the strop some more slack but that will eventually round the cutting edge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kees View Post
    I have had more succes giving the strop some more slack but that will eventually round the cutting edge.
    No, it won't.

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    What I have seen round from a strop is where the bevel and the blade meet. I don't mean the cutting edge. Even if that part is rounded you can get a good shave.

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    Rounding a bevel with a strop, is in the same boat as the Tape will wreck the geometry statement

    Although they both might be true, the time it takes to do it, makes the statements irrelevant for our usage

    Gee Glen how can you say that ????

    Because over the years when I read statements, I just don't believe them, so I take the time to learn

    http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...xperiment.html

    I abused that razor with diamond pastes read the tests I did, then try your own

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    The razor I was speaking of is an old 4/8 Boker and under a supposedly 45x loupe you can see the rounding, but I haven't yet bothered to redo the bevel so it looks nice because I have taken it to a C12k for a touch up since I bought it used and from Ebay and it has shaved wonderfully since. Still looked rounded after the C12k. Wish I could take pictures and post them of the rounding, but I do not have the capabilities to do so. After reading your experiment I would have to say that this razor would have to have been used for many many years to get the rounding that I can see, but yet it is still functional.

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