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Last one I did, I used petroleum jelly and just left it in the Ziploc for a week. They are fun, they can be way better than they have any right to, or utterly hateful with no real explanation besides...

If you have anything getting tuggy, give it 6-8 laps on lather and see what's doing after a nice stropping. I think a lot of how these things behave today is down to how well the binder has aged.

There is a huge performance database of barber hones on another forum. Did you treat it with anything after lapping to improve surface cohesion?