I did something tonight that has me looking forward to my morning shave. I am a right-hand-dominant person with ambidextrous abilities in many areas. Until tonight I have never considered stropping with my left hand. I recently strained my right hand in the thumb area and more or less wear a brace as needed throughout the day. For some reason tonight it was too painful to strop right-handed, so the great experiment in using my left hand. Needless to say, it went very slowly and awkward at the start. I was super hyper-aware of pressure on the strop and went very slowly. I did about 2/3rds fewer laps than usual in fear of cutting the strop or doing something to the edge.

The razor is a fairly new SAS I bought a few years back and one of the first that I honed myself. It took a fine edge and has been giving excellent shaves so I am doubly apprehensive as to the quality of the morning shave and the condition of the edge.