Thread: New Stropers

I'm pretty sure when I started, I was barely doing 20 laps a minute. Going faster will come with practice, but do your strop and razor a favor and start slow with emphasis on good technique, not speed.

Also, I would recommend starting either with a bench strop or resting your hanging strop on a table. It will save your strop from getting sliced to bits and your razor from getting dulled.

Originally Posted by Ernie1980

Also, I would recommend starting either with a bench strop or resting your hanging strop on a table. It will save your strop from getting sliced to bits and your razor from getting dulled.

I would prefer to practice my technique with a razor and strop analogue prior to having to use my proper strop, then just use a hanging strop but that's just me. Nothing wrong with this advice.

I recommend you forget the metronome and go to the complex syncopation of bebop.