After more than 15 years of SR shaving, I've made one of my biggest mistakes.

I haven't nicked or cut a strop in over a decade and yesterday evening, I finished up a Heljestrand frameback on a Coticule, stropped it up nicely, was going to be a good shave.

I just finished stropping on my old Kanayama Cordovan strop when I had one of those enormous clumsy moments.

The razor slid out my hand, the strop caught it and sliced it halfway through. Arhg.

Razor's edge is messed up, but that can be fixed; my strop won't ever be the same. Cut halfway through right in the middle of the strop. Meh. My favorite strop too. Feels bad.

Don't do this.