Beginner needs a ton of help :(
Hello all, I am new to this site ad need a ton of help.
A while ago I purchased a dovo "natural" a "streich-riemen" paddle strop ad some green paste of some sort....
The place where i purchased it showed me how to apply paste to strop ad how to strop....
so I applied the paste to one side of the strop and tried to sharpen the razor ( I believe i know how to sharpen one)
then, when done with the pasted side a moved to the naked side.....the thing is, it will not shave no matter what i do, I live in france and have no idea where to get it professionally done.
Also,the blade is starting to get some black spots on it? is this normal? i know on carbon knives we usually allow the blade to turn black do we do the same with razors?
.....can anyone help me to try and figure out how to get my razor to be able to shave...all i want is to be able to get it sharp and shave with it every other day or so : ( but i cant get that to happen,
thanks in advance and sorry for english.