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Try stropping in a dress shirt, underwear, and sunglasses.

Well, just for clarification I use a hanging strop. But if your saying people that hang their strop up at an angle I'm not sure.

It did occur to me though a few years ago that people that hang...

I don't know, this is an old dark reddish brown rectangular stone. Its even beat up a bit with what appears to be breadknifing lines in it.

Jimmy, your probably correct as usual.

Not sure, not only am I not a strop pass counter, I usually use few strokes. I would guess that the last week I've been using about 8 strokes, maybe ten.

I usually don't use the linen.
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No, but the second you apply too much pressure it'll dull. Sometimes, usually on the flip, if I'm not paying attention, or it's early and I'm just generally inattentive, I use a little too much...

Yes, I still feel a draw on the blade but I believe there is less chance of rolling the edge. The sharper a razor is the less pressure you should use. This technique might also be helpful when the...

I have been playing a bit with my razors and I brought out an old barber hone recently. Before, when my razors were reasonably sharp this barber hone did little, but now that the blades are really...