I'm only one straight shave into my journey, having done well my first time. I would say that I got at least as close as my venerable Mach 3 aside from my chin, which I nearly removed after too many passes. I think my skin stretching must improve.
The strop I have is the basic Dovo hanging style with the white linen on one side. I thought it was wider by the picture, but even the others are at most 2" wide. This one is 1.75" wide by the by.
Is it acceptable to run it X times on half the blade, and X times on the other half or will that make the center section that overlaps 'too' sharp, i.e. uneven?
If so, should I move the blade slowly across as it moved forward and back? I'm also moving at glacial speeds as a beginner, so I wondered what's a good number of passes for a slow poke if i'm using the linen side to warm the blade?
