Hi everyone. I though about starting to shave with a straight razor for a while now. And a week ago my girlfriend bought me a kit with a edwin jagger cutthroat razor, T&H soap, a brush and a noname strop.

I tried the razor once without stropping and it did a pretty decent job. But not as good as i wished. So I decided to strop.

The strop is pretty wide and thick. maybe 9 cm wide and 3 mm thick. Both sides is leather, one feels a bit more coarse than the other and it got one steel ring on every side. It was pretty dry and stiff so i treated it with some fat that I got with the kit. Now it's a bit softer but still i find it to hard to make a decent strop on it. I saw some stropping videos and i noticed that the strops there is much softer than mine.

So my question is. Is my strop crappy or do i just need to break it in?

I also bought two honing stones today cuz i want to restore som older razors, one king combo stone 1000/6000 and one naniwa 10 000 stone (or how it's spelled) Does that work to do recondition work?

Cheers