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Actually I think we're talking about both of these aspects. :-)

Drawing the strop taught is always needed from what I've read, it's just that when I see videos of people stropping, it looks like...

Maybe that's my problem, I've been pressing in a little too much. To be honest, my shaves with the straight are still leaving me really rough. My wife prefers me to use the Gillette I've been using...

Since I had my razor sharpened recently by Lynn / classicshaving.com, I'll try the no-pressure thing with the strop and shave. I have to assume it's sharp since he's the man and did the sharpening...

Is that right? No pressure on the strop at all? It looks like people are pulling on the strop a lot from several videos I've seen, but I still see it sagging as the razor is drawn across the...