I've been altering my stropping technique in an effort to figure out how to get one of my razors to shave me better, and I've found that really pulling it tight seems to help. I wasn't paying as much attention to this before, although I had read it in several posts. Here's my general approach.

When the razor is fresh from the hone (FFTH):

1. 50 passes linen, strop held very tight and very gentle with the razor (very little pressure)
2. 50 passes leather, strop very tight, and also very gentle with razor
3. 10 passes with ever so slight slack (not much at all, so the strop dips maybe 2-3mm from the 'tight' position) Do this also being very gentle with the blade pressure

This seemed to really help the TI full hollow I was having trouble with earlier (see my earlier posts). The shave was not awesome, but maybe will get better as the number of shaves increases.

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