Thread: Rounded tip or not

That's good news. Just remember the idea is not to remove all stubble in one pass but to reduce it over a series of passes.

Bob

Don’t roll your wrist, hold the razor at opposing corners of the tang so one corner, (with the edge facing you on your away stroke, the top corner on the edge side) is in the middle of the thumb pad, the opposing corner, (bottom spine side) is on you index finger.

Then like flipping a switch with the thumb, flip the razor, by pushing on the corner, like a switch in the direction of the flip. The corner below will now be on top, in the middle of the thumb pad and the razor will gently have landed on the strop. Flip the thumb back the opposite direction at the end of the stroke to return the tang to the corner you started with. If you flip properly the wrist will not move at all and you have complete control of the amount of pressure at the flip.

If you flip your wrist, you will use too much pressure and slam the razor and possibly the edge onto the strop and can roll or bend the edge. Remember the edge is so fine we cannot see it without about 1,000 X magnification, it does not take much to bend and break it.

Rolling an edge is just bending it, bend it too much or too many times, it breaks and causes a chip. It can “Roll”/bend at the flip, (biting the strop), flipping while still in forward motion (biting the strop), using too much downward pressure or lifting the spine off the strop while in movement.

When you flip with your whole wrist, even if stopped you can still have forward movement with the rolling action of the wrist. When done properly with the thumb, only the thumb and the razor move, the wrist does not.

The strop does not have to be super taught, as long as you don’t apply downward pressure on the razor.