Originally Posted by
Wayne1963
I'm about 1 year into straight shaving, and the 4 razors I own were starting to shave less than satisfactory. I honed them myself, but still was not satisfied, and thought I'd have to send them out for honing. I had always strived to strop with no pressure, then I read a post by Glen saying that you should strop with "some" pressure. I adopted this, loosened up on the strop just a little and presto! The Robert Williams that I thought would never shave well purrs like a kitten. I never would've figured this one change in stropping would made such a change, but it did. Thanks Glen.