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Hmmm. I'm more convinced it's the stropping. Again, I reccomend actually NOT stropping initially to rule that out. I doubt it's the quality of the strop, you can strop on newspaper and even a belt...

Hi,
My guess is that it is indeed your stropping.

You seem to be saying, basically, that though the first razor was sold as shave ready, for some reason it wasn't, as you say when you got it...