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Learning to strop evenly with the spine on the strop the whole time. This is a big one and I didn't notice I was doing it wrong until about a week ago (I am 8 weeks into...

It's amazing what a little Cr0 will do to improve your shaves. Last night I thought to myself, "maybe the edge lost a little keeness along the way" on my GOTTA. So I did 10 laps on the Cr0 and the...

So this morning, I had about four hours before I had to go to work. While watching the history of the Freemasons on the History Channel I decided to do a few laps on my Coticule with my Full Hollow...

Tried again this morning with my new knowledge of stropping. I also used a higher angle on my face rather than flat against it when going WTG and XTG. First two passes felt ok and weren't painful....

I never really got any kind of razor burn from my straights, even going ATG on my neck and chin. When I first started DE shaving though, I got crazy razor burn until I figured it out. I am lucky I...

I never thought of doing the TPT or TNT tests with a DE blade. That is a very good idea! I will test a feather out tonight.

Thanks again, everyone. I am going to try improving my stropping and perhaps send a razor out too. I will keep the thread updating on how things go throughout the week with my new stropping...

Thanks a lot, guys, for all the helpful advice. When I first started a few weeks ago, I thought maybe my facial hair is just really corse especially since the razors were pulling alittle from the...

I don't know if the original honing was the issue either. OLD_SCHOOL seems to know what he is doing when it comes to honing razors. If my stropping was incorrect for the first few weeks, would...

That's what I thought I felt the ringing sound was due to improper stropping. It is hard for me to see if the spine is perfectly flat on the strop ,since I wear glasses but can't shave with them on...

I'll explain my prep for you guys. Like I said, I have been getting really nice BBS from my DE:

Hot shower
Wash face in shower then put hot cloth on my face. Brush is soaking while I shower as...

So the past few weeks I have been exploring this straight razor thing. What is the big deal, I would ask myself. Since then I have three straights. One is honed by OLD_SCHOOL here on SRP, a GOTTA...