Originally Posted by
BurnBeGone
To answer your questions in order:
- The razor was starting to get hard to shave with, about ready for a touch-up, before stropping on the CrOx, but it was definitely MUCH worse afterwards.
- I used the powder pretty sparingly, a pretty sparse coating, not even close to uniform, though there were still a couple lumps that the razor smoothed out on the first couple of passes.
- Yes, I stropped spine-first.
After I stropped, the bevel was nice and shiny, in fact a tiny spot of rust I had been unable to get out of it was nearly removed, so I was quite excited to use it. Then I rinsed and dried, skipped the linen, and stropped on the leather as usual before shaving. As I said, my best guess is that the newspaper wasn't properly flat. If it was bulging upward too much due to how it was wrapped around my stone, I guess it could have rounded my edge as I stropped.