Hello,

I got a paddle strop with Accueil. In the shop Paddle was prepared for me, diamond and chrome put on both sides, some instructions given.

This is my first experience with straight razor, but I have some experience with knives. So, following problems I see.

1. Chrome Ox - even with light pressure it fells off... I figured out, that it was unevenly put, so I levelled it with some application of alcohol and evened it. It is still not perfect - shall I do something else? I was thinking about something similiar to water stones lapping to make it perfectly even - shall I???

2. Diamond side - now here is something that looks like production flaw - when I do stropping, only the sides of the strop are working. It is clearlt visible after some knife stropping, that leaves a lot of metal on sides (black), and middle section stays clear. Only when I do some pressure with knife, middle section starts to be engages. Of course, I cannot use much pressure with razor, so the first thought was to level it with some DMT pad, I did few moves and stopped - I just had a second thought that this is not a good thing to do!

So.... any advices here - except of those: get yourself a belt strop...