Thread: Howdy from Montana.

Welcome to SRP-I envy you: Montana is the prettiest state in America in my book. Did you get the razor from SRD too? If so, it would have been shave ready. Maybe an experienced member who lives in your (admittedly very large!) neighborhood could assess your edge, your stropping, even your shave itself, to see if you are doing things correctly. There are many variable that can mess up a straight shave, especially until you have enough experience under your belt to know what messed it up.

If you were getting good shaves in that first week and a half but are having difficulty maintaining edges via stropping (edge declining with each shave), it is probably something you are doing wrong in the stropping: maybe too much pressure? Or have an experienced honer assess your edge and maybe re-finish it has been dulled. Let us know how it turns out. Aaron

edit: Okay, you posted while I was typing, and answered my main question. If you got a shave-ready razor honed by Lynn, then your problem is most likely your stropping, as no edge should degrade that fast if used carefully. If you've really dulled it, it may need some refinishing on an 8 or 12k stone, or as Sixxgun said, if you can find one of the many members in that region for help, he may be able to show you how to strop it back into shape if not too far gone.