Quote Originally Posted by onimaru55 View Post
This combined with less than adequate stropping skills
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This is precisely what happened to me Thursday when I visited one of our members who just received a top quality vintage razor from the SRP classifieds. I gave it a test shave right out of the box and did not like the result from the first shave stroke.

I immediately stropped the blade on one of the members' vintage strops and gave the razor another test shave and voila, beautiful shave. The blade simply was not stropped properly from the get-go. It was very well honed, just not very well stropped.