Thread: Stropping - lifting the razor off the strop at the end of a pass

Originally Posted by Euclid440

If you lift the spine before the razor stops, just once you will roll the edge.

That is simply not true. At least not in a general sense. Now if you were to exert a lot of pressure on the strop while doing that, or if you lift the spine to a 45-degree angle or something, then yes a rolled edge could result. But lifting the spine a tiny bit during normal stropping is not harmful, and could actually aid in straightening out the edge.