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It never happened to me again with that or any other razor on that strop or any other. I can only conclude there was a burr of some sort on the razor as some suggested

Good idea - I have read a few things about linen strops but I don't really see a consensus. If I knew what the linen actually did to the blade, I wouldn't be so cautious about experimenting

There isn't enough difference for me to tell, but I did just start regularly shaving with a straight within the last week or two. The blade was well honed and is the sharpest I've used. I don't...

*sorry something went terribly wrong with the scaling.*

The spot is toward the left side of the blade in this photo above the oil mark that my finger left yesterday:
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It's hard for me to tell if the leather is hanging up on an uneven part of the metal or not. The fibers are bundled up in a tiny hardly visible heap in one particular place and then they lay out...

I am finding tiny red fibers on my razor in one spot and only spot. They are hardly visible to the naked eye but I can see them in my magnifier - at first I thought it was part of my face leftover...