I recently had a custom I made and honed up, all excited for the first test run and then it happened... I wasn't very impressed by the shave I got. I randomly came upon this thread and it hit me, I had not stropped it thoroughly. So I went back to the strop couple days later and another run, beautiful results!

It's funny to me how sometimes we forget the basics, but as always you fine gents here have reminded me of this and we continue on this journey!