Hello,

I'm KLF, from Israel. I shave with an DE for 5 months now and I'm comfortable with it. Today I received my straight razor from whippeddow, it's an Fromm Bros, I guess it's an "5/8?!? I shaved with it now and something went wrong...I can't explain why, but the razor would skip and also "stick" to my face, it would not "glide" like I saw in all the videos. I thought it's maybe the lather, I changed creams and lather again but it didn't improved...
I had a 2 days growth and the shave it was painful, my face got irritated like hell but I didn't even nick myself. In the package I reveicev from Larry it said I don't need to strop the razor as it was already stropped.
Now, before shaving it may be that I did something stupid and dulled the blade, I don't know. I cleaned the razor with some chemical solution metals, it says "Cleans and shines without scratching: stainless steel,chrome,nickel,bronze,pewter brass,etc." . It's some kind of white liquid paste, I used cotton swabs, I tried not to touch the blade but...can it be and I totally dulled the razor ? Also I used 3M Stainless steel cleaner(3M Stainless Steel Cleaner/Polish | Gracious Home | Product). Can it be that I ruined it ? The blade felt dull and the tugging was unsupportable, a truly disaster. I don't know if I need to send the blade for re-honing or should I try to strop and improve my technique...Help !!!