Thread: I think I reached a stropping success milestone. THANKS!

Been at this straight razor shaving for a bit over a year now. I've been maintaining my two razors and getting decent shaves. Got a new razor from SRD honed by Lynn 3 weeks ago. Compared to my "decent" shaves the shaves with this razor are much better. I've been stropping it between every shave on a kangaroo strop and it has continued to shave great. A couple of days ago I noticed a little bit more resistance when shaving. So I used a webbing strop with .5 micron diamond spray on it. I think I did around 20 passes or so. Then I used the roo strop for 60-70 passes. The next shave was better than the previous. Just a little bit. I'm not sure if I would have noticed if I weren't trying to pay close attention to how sharp the razor was. Plus, being new to shaving with a straight razor my ability to judge shaves isn't what it will be in days and years to come. Anyway, I have been able to keep the definitely shave ready razor shaving well and even refurbished it some with the webbing strop. For me this is a significant improvement. In the past I'm convinced that on occasion I've done more harm than good to the edge. If I can continue like this I finally can understand how you guys say you can go for months without using stones.

I'd like to thank all the folks who have helped with this. Either by answering a specific question of mine or help I've gotten by reading posts and threads here.