Having done about 5 shaves with the gold dollar, and been very pleased, i thought i'd give it 4-5 laps on the CroOx side, as Ken recommends doing it "every other shave or so".
I then stropped it as normal, but only about 10 laps. I suspect this was not enough, it didnt cut arm hairs as well as before but i still tried to shave with it, and well it was not a nice shave - the blade kept digging into the hairs instead of slicing through.
I then gave the razor a good strop, about 30+ careful laps, after which it seemed to cut the arm hairs much better. Does it sound like I might have fixed it? I'm a bit scared to shave with it again!
I suppose the question is, can 30 laps on the strop really have such a dramatic effect?
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I then stropped it as normal, but only about 10 laps. I suspect this was not enough, it didnt cut arm hairs as well as before but i still tried to shave with it, and well it was not a nice shave - the blade kept digging into the hairs instead of slicing through.
I then gave the razor a good strop, about 30+ careful laps, after which it seemed to cut the arm hairs much better. Does it sound like I might have fixed it? I'm a bit scared to shave with it again!
I suppose the question is, can 30 laps on the strop really have such a dramatic effect?
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