Hi folks! I have often noticed an improvement in the edge when I do some "finger stropping" (for lack of a better word). Sometimes, when the razor arrives back from a honemeister, it's all the stropping that I do. I sometimes rub the edge between my fingers (index and thumb) using oil, and then cleaning it for shaving using some soap and the same motion, going from the spine to the edge. Many of you probably do similar things without thinking about it, but it seems to make the edge even smoother after stropping. I just thought it was strange that not more people mention this.

BTW I have also noticed that DE blades improve even more than a SR doing this, probably because these blades are not normally stropped at all.