well I went down to the post office yesterday and picked up my package from Tony Miller (it was around 4 p.m.) went home opened it up and there it was.
my new 4 sided pre-pasted, 3 in red latigo strop and Tony's last dovo special
straight which he pre-sharpend for me.Beautiful like everyone says!! well I got in a steaming shower for about 20 min, splashed some more hot water on my face, used some pre -shave oil over my stubble and proceded to lather my new spice from St charles. as soon as I finshed putting the lather ,I began to strop on the linen side 20X and the the smooth leather side 20x. I put the blade to my face while stretching my skin over my head and the blade just got stuck and pulled on my beard for about an inch, it was not comfortable it was like shaving with my mack3 without wetting my beard, I was also a bit worried I was going to get sliced, I was just not comfortable doing this,I tried several other spots and expierenced the same uneasyness. I was going real slow ,the lather was disapearing, so I re-stroped re-lathered and tried again. after about 20min I stoped. I guess I have to do a little bit each day, what am I doing wrong?
have others gone thru this? could I have messed up the blade stroping? I went slow and layed the blade flat. really confused right now.