Hey, David... a few questions:

1. Where do you live? Even outside of fixing the razor, it's always great to meet a member in your area who can show you proper stropping so you never roll an edge

2. Can you give more detail (excruciating detail ) about your stropping method before, and now that you've re-formatted it?

3. If all else fails, if you're willing to pay shipping, I can touchup your razor for you... I may not be the best honer here, but all of SRD's dovo's have nice, straight edges, and are easy to clean up, provided you can't fix it... Just figured I'd offer.

Hi Jeremy,

#1. I live in MA. It would be great to meet someone nearby to discuss technique for stropping (and shaving, particularly my chin).

#2. When I first tried stropping I flipped the wrong way, didn't keep the spine on the strop, and even when I did probably put too much pressure on the blade. I've watched the several stropping videos and thisnk that I am getting better. The one remaining question is "exactly" how much pressure to put on the blade. None seems to end up with just the spine on the strop, so I feel like I need some pressure to get the blade down on the strop.

#3. Thanks for the offer. I have a coupon for a free hone at SRD so if I send it for re-honing that will probably be my first choice. I plan to soldier on and see if it continues to get better with better stropping, lathering & shaving technique as I don't want to be without the razor for 2 weeks for re-honing and I don't want to buy a backup razor quite yet, although I'm sure that day will come.

Thanks for your interest in helping me muddle my way through this.

David