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Old 07-06-2008, 11:53 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
slow down and don't press so hard

+1 on that. I had the same issues when beginning to strop, and I realised that I sometime incline slightly my hand holding the strop to the left or to the right and that my strop and my razor are not absolutely parallel; or that I didn't draw the strop tight enough... but with the practice it will come.
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