thanks for the advice.
my routine is 50 laps on home made leather strop,shave then 25laps afterwards(was told this will dry the razor and the natural oils in the leather will help to protect the razors edge from rust developing.
my leather strop is a piece of 4"x2" wood,the 4" covered in leather and then tacked to the edge to make a perfect flat edge 30" long.My idea being that there would be no flexiing in the leather to cause any rounding off of the edge,and also the full width of the blade is then stropped without doing the x pattern. same for my pasted strop-just smaller.
I presumed that by doing this this would help eliminate as much as i could my lack of experience without effecting the overall outcome of my efforts.
I use as much care as possiblein all i do to try to get the desired result.
I had my razor sent away to a reputable razor restorer/sharpning service so
it must be my technique-just cant see that what i am doing is so wrong that
the blade will not give me a clean shave !

regards clock.