I guess I'm getting careless. I have been sanding on two vintage razors and trying to get my grandfathers old strop back in shape. In the mean time I keep practicing my stropping. I am finding that the sanded razors seem to have lost their keeness and I was trying to bring it back today. I decided to speed up a bit (been practicing my form for couple of weeks now). I am getting the X stroke down but it is slow, so today I went a bit faster and on the up stroke I must have stopped too early and pulled back. Nice 1/8 inch nick. I got it good too.

I guess one shouldn't quit thinking when working with these sharp things...

Anyway, I was able to shave with the blade and it did seem to cut better than last week. So, I guess the day wasn't a total loss...

The nick sanded out quite nicely too.