what type of strop have you got? don't be frightend to strop you can use a little presure so long as strop is fairly taught and you keep the spine in full contact all the time your stropping, so keeping the spine flat to the strop and even when you turn razor over to come back towards you roll the razor over and keep spine on strop do not lift spine of strop. so basicly the spine back of razor never leaves the strop that way you will not roll the cutting edge . it could just need a real good stropping or rehone . have you nicked the strop with your edge if so that could be another reason you lost your edge .. You could always get some sharpening paste on balsa and try touch up your self before you spend any money on rehoning. steve sells plenty of sharpening paste .

gary