I decided to focus on the one thing I have not changed from the beginning which is stropping technique and by the way I thought I had that one in the bag. I watched the videos from the thread Stroptober and others, read many proper strop technique threads. I came to the conclusion that there was one thing in stropping a razor I was doing the opposite of. Which I believe is the most important part of stropping a razor. "Burying the spine into the strop!" It is not something that is easy to explain or demonstrate. Maybe someone else could chime in to spell this technique out?

My main point of posting this is to re assert how important proper stropping is and to show how someone could arrogantly ignore the fundamentals and basics of specific stropping techniques and prevent the enjoyment of shaving from ones self because they didn't think the suggestion was worth looking into. So Please listen and actually try the suggestions from the pros thank you lol

Thank you to all those who have suggested to me to re examine my stropping technique from the many other threads I have posted...you were right...and thank you to those who have been patient in helping me...