Hi all,

I've had a look through the library on here, watched a load of stropping videos and will perform my first strop in the next few days before embarking on shave number 3. I've even had a practice the the butter knife and my belt and it doesn't seem that difficult in theory.

I'm still worried as a lot of people feel that as sure as you're born, you'll blunt your first razor learning to strop. I really want to avoid doing this so am looking for advice from people as to how their first strops went and what other pitfalls to avoid. Can a first strop truly be a guaranteed failure?

Cheers for any advice.

G