Always tinkering and tried stropping my feather pro guard and pro blades on my linen strop while in my shavette. To my surprise I got a really smooth shave. I stropped the blade after each shave and it extended the shave to 10. I just tried stropping on my Tony Miller strop and it is even better. I normally wouldn't bother with a DE blade but the Feather blades do take to the strops.