“Think my problem may be related to a double bevel in my blade.”


No, the double bevel has nothing to do with it. The amount of deflection that is needed to overcome a double bevel is less than the thickness of a piece of paper. Remember the thickness of a piece of tape created the second bevel.

When honing on film, adding a piece of copy paper under the finishing film, only the front third of the bevel will be polished by the deflection of a single sheet of paper. It is a pressure issue, the downward pressure of the blade on the strop and a slight slackness of the strop.

If a flat, paddle strop can strop a bevel reaching the edge, tautness of the strop must have very little effect.

It is your calibration, of your pressure, keeping the razor’s spine on the strop and experience that will make a difference. Your idea of “a little pressure” and mine will be completely different.