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Definitely not, no offense. Reading those pages of the manual you suggested was one of the best things I've done in relation to my razorship in quite some time. Heh, I've even taped the page...

Thanks for the suggestion, Alan. I will definitely read from the manual; I haven't yet and I'm certain I'll benefit from it.

Your quote from the manual that I've emboldened really caught my eye. ...

No, I'm not changing mid stroke. If the razor needs it (more slack to allow for full contact of the edge on that side with the strop) then it might be a fairly taught strop on the "away" stroke and...

I was surprised by the amount of slack needed to get the blade to lie flat on both sides of some of my razors as well. I'm definitely not making any assertion that I think the above method is better...

There must be a time limit to edit posts, I can't add pics to my original post on this topic, so I'll add them here. Thanks go out to my wife for actually taking the pics since my hands were...

I want to share some stropping observations gained recently from observing the actual razors on my hanging strop that may help others, especially those new to stropping (I'm fairly new myself).
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