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Thanks for the advice; I'll pay more attention to my skin stretching next time.

Well, as a test engineer I always try to fall back to a 'known good' condition, so I ordered a Dovo "Best Quality" 6/8, a 3" Red Latigo strop, and Lynn's DVD, all from Vintage Blades. I know I'll get...

I have a strop but have not yet used it. I bought the razor on ebay, here is some of the ebay blurb,

"This is an 11/16-width square-point, wedge-style or half-hollow-ground John Bylde straight...

I've been lurking here for about 3 weeks and have learned a lot.

Today was my 1st attempt at str8 shaving. Right after a hot shower I whipped up some lather from some cream I bought on ebay from...