Thread: Packing paper strop

All the old dogs around here already know about using paper as a strop. So recently I went to work for my usual three week shift. Wouldn’t you know it, I packed everything but a strop. Snap. I found some packing paper that was a big piece and clean, so this was my strop for 21 days. It worked well and maintained my edge like a champ.

21 days?

If that was the only razor you used, I think the maintenance of the edge is a testament to the quality of the steel in the razor and the edge you were able to create before leaving on your shift. You probably could have kept shaving using your palm as a strop.

Ole Rez can put a fine edge on a razor, I've gotten a razor from him.

Great idea showing your actual experience here for the new guys

I have nicked quite a few strops, I am not going to palm strop. I know many do but that one is not for me. The razor shaved fine before the shift and still shaves fine.

Well....A good-shaving Friodur will go longer without stropping than anything I have found.
I never go away for 21 days, but my travel razor is always a Friodur or a Hess 44 as I never take a strop. Still, the paper held-up and kept the edge stropped clean.

That's a good thing!

Thanks for sharing Rez. Goes to prove the fact.

If you are traveling and are staying in a hotel, many of them have newspapers available, at least on weekdays. The packing paper strop used by RezDog worked well, but printing ink contains fine abrasive pigments that may enhance the effect of stropping on paper. Thus, do not fear folding up a USA Today or the local editorial pages.

True story. The newspaper, if available works great. I was using the best I had available. I had previously used the inside face of a cereal box too, mostly because the outside seemed too glossy. There are many things that work in a pinch.

Cool, Shaun-I haven't had a newspaper in the house in years, but I used to tune up an edge on a folded up comic strip, or a green page in the Sunday supplement.