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Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
I have two newspaper strops, both of which are lightly impregnated with mineral oil. One is used after honing to clean the blade of grit to avoid transferring it to the strop. The other is for honing after shaving. In both cases, the bevel of the blade is lightly oiled by transfer of oil from the paper strop.

After the paper stropping the rest of the blade is wiped with a blue shop paper towel also lightly impregnated with mineral oil.
This is substituted for linen Ron? Sounds interesting, I always knew it was good for my knives. Now as far as post shave ,, it sure doesn't hurt to gave that edge clean post shave to eliminate oxidation and I,m a firm believer you can't strop too much unless your stropping sucks. I,m doing 20 linen 30 leather post shave and 30 linen 60 pre shave and have not seen one spot of rust oxidation or ugly edges and I can get several weeks from an edge. Tc