Well thanks to my poor stropping technique I realized I was managing to dull my new razor after only about 7 shaves, so I purchased this 40x150mm coticule to touch it up. I think I've improved my stropping to bring it back somewhat but I bought this coticule stone to touch up the edge. After I bought this I did some more research and realized this is probably not the easiest thing to use, but I already have it so what the heck. It also came with a slurry stone. I drew a grid on it and lapped it and rounded the edges with my DMT course diamond stone. I drew a second grid and lapped it a second time to check that it was flat. When I get home tonight I'll try doing 30 edge leading passes like it says on coticule.be and strop it carefully. Then, we'll see how the Thanksgiving shave goes. Here goes nothing!

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