Thread: Living up to my screen name

In my first year of straight razor shaving my stropping was incorrect. The blade was not sitting fully flat on the leather and basically, the edge was not improving. The difficulty with stropping as a beginner is that you don't really know how the blade is supposed to feel when you are doing it right. My eureka moment was when I finally was able to get that rasping sound with the slight resistance on my laps, which was the indication that the razor edge is sitting flat on the leather.