Thread: Setup question

Originally Posted by DustinW

as someone else that is only a couple months into it myself I can not urge you enough to buy a cheap "practice" strop first. You will be stropping after your first shave and you absolutely without a doubt will nick it... more than once more than likely. Heck I nicked mine again last night after a couple months of use. I am getting close to the point that I will likely buy a nicer one but not until I am sure I can use it without nicking it.

Hopefully that sale on the shavemac brushes sticks around for a bit though... Those prices are awesome.

SRD offers a replacement leather for the latigo strop, in case one might place a terminal nick on one's latigo strop. Tony Miller (The Well Shaved Gentleman) offers practice strops.

Originally Posted by Tonsor

SRD offers a replacement leather for the latigo strop, in case one might place a terminal nick on one's latigo strop. Tony Miller (The Well Shaved Gentleman) offers practice strops.

Personally, I would go for Tony's practice strop. Chances are you will hack it to pieces, and in the event, you will get a nice strop for pastes. Cf. my first Dovo strop...

SRD's strops look yummy, though.