Thread: Help/advice in the UK

Hi guys,

so I am looking for advice on stropping/pasting regime and where to buy a good strop and pastes in the UK. I have one strop just now, which I have nicked, obviously....still learning so I was thinking I would try to fix it up and maybe use if as a final paste before a clean strop?

So, I was thinking I would maybe get a 4 sided paddle strop with pastes, a new clean finishing strop and perhaps some chromium ox paste as the finisher? Anyone able to advise? I would be buying in the UK hopefully. I work away on rotation so it just makes sense to get it all in the UK so I can arrange it all in a short as possible time frame. Where do the UK buyers source their stuff? I have only used "invisible edge" as that is where I bought my razor from.

Any help/advice much appreciated.

Also, anyone on here from the UK hone professionally? Even though my razor came "shave ready" it tugged a little, which mellowed after a few shaves and stropping. Is this normal? I reckon I will send to someone who really knows what they are doing so I can have a benchmark on what it should really feel like to have a shave ready edge

Thoughts?

By the way I am in the central belt in Scotland and am willing to travel if there is anyone around who can show me the ropes, stropping, pasting, care of kit etc...I will thank with beer tokens a plenty

Al