Gentlemen:

I finally got to use my new razor and paddle strop from Tony Miller

Overall, it went smoothly. Here are my issues:

1. I understand while stropping, the spine of the blade should rest on the stop. When I did that, the blade didn't touch the strop, I had to lift the spine a bit and then got a nice sound. I stopped because I didn't want to damage the blade.

2. Sides of face went great! Even used both hands.

3. Had great difficulty getting the upper lip and chin area. I got 2 small cuts and pulled a couple of hairs. Razor kept getting caught in the beard. I assume it's either my angle or I messed up the blade stropping.

Questions:

1. How do you get that lip area (unfortunately, Lynn's DVD didn't help me too much on the lip. I could get the 1st pass with the grain but against it was a little tough and I had to finish with my Fusion

2. Same question only on the chin area. I seemed to get decent results holding it at a 90 degree angle but I don't think that should be proper.

Results of first shave:

Near BBS on sides and neck. Troubled on the lip and chin but overall a great experience and I will definitely be back for more