I might try a firmer hand myself, but the truth is I'm chicken. i was knocking the edges off my blades with pressure. Oh, well . . . You won't know till you try.

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Not with my SRP 39 you won't! (just kidding-well maybe not)

Actually that flies in the face of most of the advice we have all used. I would think that using pressure on the strop would damage the cutting edge of the blade. I find I use so little pressure when I strop that if there is too much draw on the strop the razor starts to come out of my hand.