If you use a really flat approach sometimes even with spine contact & there is discomfort I think something is possibly wrong with the edge.
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You may want to up your lap counts some. The dovo/jemico strops tend to be on the shorter side for strops nowadays. So if your following what you are seeing on the forum you probably are not getting the blade on the strop as often as others here.
I have a jemico leather strop and I do 80 laps before a shave and 60-80 after a shave so really I am getting about 140-160 laps before a shave.
I love my jemico and wouldn't trade it for anything else just takes some more laps
The jemico and dovo strops are made by the same company and are the same strops just branded differently.
No probs. Stropping is a bit of a challenge at first.
My offer holds even tho i didn't hone it but maybe whoever did it will help you out too. Doesn't sound like a big job.
Alot of times when I noticed something I didn't like during the shave it usually happened when I didn't stretch the skin enough or if I was using too much pressure.
After responding to this post I decided to shave and wouldn't you know I was leaving the skin loose and pressing pretty hard. You would think that I would know better especially after posting about doing exactly that. :banghead:
Why do we use SR if the disposable is going to be sharper? Maybe I just have not had a properly honed blade yet :(
Pretty likely our not really stropping. Don't baby it. If you fail to use any pressure at all you're at the whim of the perfection of your technique alone.
A properly stropped edge should provide consistently good or bad shaves, based on honing or technique. Honing, prep, and technique would produce consistent issues, too, either good or bad, I think.