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I'm having mine honed on a coticule, not as harsh an edge. Plus I'm going to get a linen strop as well. Between that and re-examining my stropping, going to see if that makes a difference.

Another forum user from the UK has contacted me and offered to get it back up to shave readiness.

Also, although I thought I was using light pressure on the strop, I'll go lighter again and slow...

Should I be getting that scraping sound? Or is that an indicator I may roll the edge.

So if I get an old denim pair of jeans and cut a strip and then add the paste to that?

Hey guys, sorry for taking so long to reply, was out watching The Hobbit.

I noticed it was starting to tug a bit the last time, but only a bit. This time, I doubled the stropping laps in case...

I've only used the straight for the 6th time tonight and there's a lot of pulling. Is it possible that I've already dulled the edge through bad technique / stropping?

As for stropping, I was...