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Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. $3.00 mystery leather is fine to get your going, but it's worth the investment to get a good strop once you figure out what you're doing.

Also, a linen strop...

I've got some pretty seriously coarse beard hair as well, and you're right. Each shave does dull the razor just slightly.

However, if you found that you had a better shave right off the CrO than...

We're talking about two different kinds of shinny. As you use any hone, you're removing steel from the razor. That steel has to go somewhere, and while a lot of it is rinsed away as swaff, a lot of...