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His may be, still he is a barber he knows what he is doing I guess. I strop mine just like any other razor and have no problems.

Buying cheapies on Ebay is always too good to be true. Those Japanese sellers know how to hide issues with pictures, at least Ebay is good with refunds.

Sometimes on eboy for huge mark up, but otherwise they can be gotten from Japan

I agree, scything action is the way to go when using that one.

Just rolling x-strokes all the way, not big deal. For me, because I hone with tape, the biggest challenge is to tape the spine lol.

There are other R.Saito SK out there. Here is one of them

http://i1020.photobucket.com/albums/af323/mainaman1/Knives/Razors/IMAG7170_zps4ksngmyt.jpg...

Strops just like any other razor, take a look at the video below


https://youtu.be/Bq0Kj2DzltA

I have one of those and it shaves great. I do not think it was made to look cool at expense of functionality.