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

Really?
Straighten the edge?
How do you know how much to lift?
Perhaps you can demonstrate this technique?

When I tried learning the thumb/idex no-wrist no-lift strop flip... phew. It seemed as difficult as learning how to tie my shoelaces in a bow when I was maybe four years old; it took about a week to sort it out. Glad I practiced with a butterknife - have yet to wreck a strop beyond a drop of rubber cement (and that has been a while). Result is a consistent, precise movement with very light blade contact. I honor the men who can lift, flip and continue to march with the same good resuts.

I yam followink method of hibudgl, as thees eez right method straight razor stroppink:

http://youtu.be/9mj5YliQQzg

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

When I tried learning the thumb/idex no-wrist no-lift strop flip... phew. It seemed as difficult as learning how to tie my shoelaces in a bow when I was maybe four years old; it took about a week to sort it out. Glad I practiced with a butterknife - have yet to wreck a strop beyond a drop of rubber cement (and that has been a while). Result is a consistent, precise movement with very light blade contact. I honor the men who can lift, flip and continue to march with the same good resuts.

I yam followink method of hibudgl, as thees eez right method straight razor stroppink:

http://youtu.be/9mj5YliQQzg

That video was very helpful. I played around with his technique yesterday and found the grip he suggested very easy. I also never considered stropping from the side as he did. I really like that. I found it much easier to get a smooth consistent motion going sideways instead of up and down.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Really?
Straighten the edge?
How do you know how much to lift?
Perhaps you can demonstrate this technique?

Try it. As in most things in this hobby, YMMV, but I expect you might be pleasantly surprised.

Learning to keep the spin on the strop can be difficult but over time it becomes second nature. For instance, if I try to start my strop session with the edge and the razor farthest away from me on the strop I get confused and have to stop. I strop the same way I have been for 35 years, with the edge towards me and the razor closest to me on the strop. I start off slow going away and then flip it on the spine so that the edge is away from me and then slow back. I pick up speed as I get into the swing of it.

mis dos centavos,....

I find that if I keep the strop quite taught and with very light pressure at higher speeds it is easy to lift off ever so slightly.
I could probably loosen the tension of the stop and apply a little more pressure?
And sometimes I do ..........

The big thing, to me, is to take your time and don't hurry it. It is so easy to flip just a bit too soon, and gouge the strop a bit. Not that I would know about that at all.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Really?
Straighten the edge?
How do you know how much to lift?
Perhaps you can demonstrate this technique?

This article I posted a while back talks about lifting the spine while stropping, many of us have used this method, and indeed it work, and quite well. Definitely not recommended for beginners.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/shavi...le-1904-a.html