Doc has a thread going in the 'Shaving' forum called http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...erd-facts.html

There seems to be a theme popping up on stropping, 'less is more.' The old instructions are advocating in the neighborhood of 5-10 laps and you're good to go. What does everyone think, are we over doing it on the stropping? I've only been doing this for a couple of months, and my routine has settled on 20/40 (linen/leather) before the shave and 10/20 after. I'm also using a 40+ year old C-Mon strop. I think just for the hell of it I'm going to start doing 10/20 before and 5/10 after, just to see if I can still get a great shave. If it works, I may even go down to 5/10 before and see how that works. Any thoughts?

Tod