Hi
Just thought about it, my house isn't to much big, and so is my bathroom
so
Where and how should I hand my lather strop? can someone give me some good advices about it?
Tank you:)
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Hi
Just thought about it, my house isn't to much big, and so is my bathroom
so
Where and how should I hand my lather strop? can someone give me some good advices about it?
Tank you:)
bathroom doorknob works for me. I use a shoelace around the doorknob, then hook the strop onto that.
AmmQuote:
Originally Posted by mparker762
But my doorknob is not a circle one, it is more like the rectangular one
Also
How can I make it so strong that I can pull the strop and make it tide on this method?
I allwyas thought that the best it putting a some kind of a nail in the wall and then tie it up there:thinking:
I keep my strop in the bathroom. I screwed a hook into the wall and hang it on the hook. I can pull it very taught with no issues.
Yep that what I was thinking to do, the problem is that it take a lot of space, isn't? and isn't the fact that the bath has a lot of water don't cause problems to the lather?Quote:
Originally Posted by steve
Also, what about sun light from the window?
Doorknob here too.
The strop I'm currently using arrived around Christmas time, the same day I brought a tree home tied to the top of the car. I was so anxious to try the strop out that I used some of the nylon cord from the tree to hang it from my closet doorknob. I'd planned on buying one of those purpose designed strop hooks for wall mounting but the temporary doorknob installation worked so well that I never bothered to change it.
No problems keeping it taut enough w/o risking damage to anything.
On a clothes hook on the back of the bathroom door (on the bathroom side of the door) (no problems with humidity)
-whatever
-Lou
Doorknob, which in Europe is more like door handle. I have bought the loop screw for the wall, but never got to fix it...
Nenad
I think the two important criteria include the height at about elbow height and that if you install in a wall that you hit the stud for stability. Otherwise, anywhere you want after that.
My house is lathe and plaster ( wire mesh nailed to studs and coated with an inch or more of cement)
I ran a 2 inch stainless eyebolt (lag) into the wall with a molly and some epoxy.
I also made a nice little washer about the size of 3 stacked quarters out of some bison horn to trim it out / cover the big ugly hole.
If your house was built with the same construction methods forewarned!
My bathroom wall was SO hard, I had to use a star bit and a 3 pound hammer and it took 15 mins.
Did I need a molly AND epoxy?
Could I shave with those 10 for $.99 twin blade disposables?
I think we all know the answer. ;)
Clip D ring on the towel rack, then after I use it. Clothes hook on back of bathroom door so a towel won't get it Wet. I re-inforced the towel rack screws, Cause my 19 year old son had a tendency to pull on it to get his shoes off.
Phil
For use - clothes hook on door (high but works for me)
Storage - in my closet. No need to have it dangle around the bathroom and risk damage from water, kids, etc. My closet is right next to our bathroom so no biggie
Cheers
Ivo
On the side of the sink vanity, it's plywood so I just bolted a threaded eye through... works great, although before putting that in I also used the door handle method.
I use a shoelace to tie it to the heater pipes. (See also my honing video)
I use a plant hook screwed by hand into the stud next to my vanity at waist level. It's no more than finger tight I could unscrew it any time but it holds securely unless I were to hang from the strop. It takes up a dead space on the wall from twelve to thirty six inches up right next to the sink, across from the shower and near the toilet yet there have been no water problems.
I read some where that it's not good to keep your strop in the bath room when you are not useing it, because of the moisture. I put my strop in my closet when I'm done with it. I think tony said this.
I do suggest that but break my own rule daily. The linen is suseptable to shrinking/expanding with humidity changes and some untreated strops will cup easily in a moist environment. I had a few Jemico strops I loved but within a week they curled to the point of being unusable. So far my treated and untreated models have remained flat and in my case with not enough linen variation to make them unusable. I have 6 strops hanging on storage hooks in my bathroom with a single, firmly mounted hook at waist height that I attach the "strop du jur" to each morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by rshave1
Tony
I've got one of Tony's strops hanging in my bathroom from a shelf at shoulder hight.
My house is circa 1938, and no fan in the bathroom. It gets pretty humid at times with my teenaged daughter taking 5 hour showers. The strop has been there for some time and is holding up fine.
I use a key ring, with a clip, attached to my towel rack. Perfect height and the key ring slides along the towel rack so I can store the attached strop at the end of the rack, or unclip it and hang it in the walk-in wardrobe with my belts.
James.
I use 4mm climbing cord attached to a #2 brass clip on the ring end of the strop and clip it to the door handle.
As with so many others I remove when done before it gets damp/wet.
I hang mine on the back of the bathroom door. It stays there no problem.
my set-up is quite unique lol. I've got a tv stand made from old treadle sewing machine legs with 3 inch thick walnut slabs for the 2 shelves. The sewing machine legs have holes in the top (where the origional top was screwed on) and that is where I've got my strop clipped. I used a clip (the type used on a climbing harness) which keeps it snug and the tv gives it enough weight that the table doesn't topple.
I screwed two large hooks into the underside of my formica countertop, on the side of the cabinet. I hang my paddle strop on one and my flat strop on the other.
I use a loop around 8" in dia. of clothesline size cord . I run the loop through the eye on the strop and put one end of the loop on the door knob on both sides of my bedroom door . This puts the strop , door knob , and door hinges all in line when I use the strop , and enables me to distribute the tension to both sides of the knob instead of just one side . When I'm done , I take the end of the loop off the front knob and hang it on the back knob , so that both ends of the loop are then over the back knob , with the strop hanging from it .
My strops all hang in the bathroom next to the sink on the left. I had a bronze 6 hook affair cast up from a pattern I made the fixed to the wall at nose height. This height works well for me though hip height does the trick for my pasted strops that are hung on the door with the same bronze hook/s.
PuFF
Not being sure if the humidity of the bathroom would harm my strop, I screwed a small hook into the door frame to my computer room, right next the closet. I can strop my razor after shaving and store it on the top shelf of the closet. I don't leave my precious razors in the bathroom 'cause it's sometimes a little humid after a shower.
Ernest
I am 1,73m tall and I have the hook for the strop 80cm from the bathroom floor
For me is easyier to strop if the strop has an angle
Well my sink area is separate from the bathroom so i hang my strops on the towel rack by the sink.
I bought one of Tony Strops after it cam with a Leather rope so I just hang it in the door knob in my room, my brothers are wild shower takers and they shave like if they were drowning lol but it's safe in my room.