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Hey all, I've just recently started shaving with a SR and i'm so lucky i came across this website and belive me, it's helped me so much, so keep up the good work! Just wondering, is it okay to strop in between the 1st and 2nd pass or could it damage the razor? If anyone could help i would appreciate it! :tu
I personally don't strop between passes, but have read about plenty of people who do, so I don't think it would hurt your razor doing it, other wise nobody would. I would make sure your razor is cleaned and dried very well before stropping in the middle of the shave.
normally it shouldnt make alot differences while you strop between passes.what happens sometimes razor edgegets so thin while you make your first pass it bends.after first pass you strop again and edge straighns out.you blade shaves great again.this type edge shouldnt last longer.properly honed blade will shave whole fase without middle stropping..but some people loves to strop they strop before shave in the middle and after shave.Gl
It won't do any harm, unless you slip on a wet tang & cut the strop in half! :D
Some do it, but i never feel the need & if i did, i think it wouldn't be long before i decided the whole process was becoming a pain.
Check the edge for whiskers first, if I need to do it I always use the linen first, two laps for cleaning.
i do not think it would hurt. i strop before and after each shave. i use linen about 10-15 laps and then on the leather about 15 laps. i always seem to have a great edge. so a little more stropping should not hurt, say 10-15 laps.
i have seen where some members strop 30 to 40 times, if you did like me plus added the 10 or so in between, it would just about be the same
I strop a time or two during a shave, and believe it improves the shave. Several times I viewed the edge with a microscope before and after the stropping. I could not detect any change to the edge, but still believe the cutting ability of the blade is improved.
Some believe stropping is mildly abrasive, and at a very microscopic level resharpens the blade. Some believe stropping straightens bent edges at the microscopic level. With my 100x microscope, I have no way of knowing whether this is true.
Another possibility, and one I definitely believe I've proven to myself, is that stropping (linen and/or untreated leather) cleans the edge and bevel and so improves the sharpness of the edge. (The metal might not be made sharper. But, when the gunk is removed from the edge and bevel it results in a sharper edge being exposed.)
One thing I know is if you shower or bathe before shaving and, your strop is anchored at waist height like mine, be VERY careful if your still naked!!
Think about it
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Originally Posted by tat2Ralfy
LOL :chop::eek:
A female friend of mine accidentally dropped a running Epilady (epilator; rotating coil that jerks hair out by the roots) into her lap. She was in a similar condition as mentioned by tat2Ralfy. Naked!
Soothing straight razor shave...
Jerk the hair out by the roots...
SRPites are so superior!
The one added benifit of stropping between passes is that it allows the lather to penetrate the bread better again...
I lather first then do a pre-shave stropping 25 linen 50 leather..
Hot towel over lather
Re-lather
First pass
rinse
re-lather
Strop 15 laps leather
2nd pass
rinse
Do you have too ??? Nope... does it help the edge??? Maybe.... does it help the lather ??? Yeppers....
Seems like I read in Dovo's literature that you should not strop after shaving. I think that they said that the edge lasts longer if it rests prior to being stropped again. As in most things, I don't follow their advice. I occasionally restrop between passes. Usually when I've missed a day or two of shaving.
I've read that you shouldn't strop after a shave, but I also have started to ignore that advice. (1) I could not detect any problem using 100x magnification, (2) the sharpness definitely improved every time I stropped, (which I highly suspect is more from cleaning the bevel and edge than any affect on the metal), and (3) it does not make sense to me that it is OK to strop mid-shave, but not at the end of the shave. (Does the blade have some sort of intelligence, knowing that "this" strop is mid-shave, and the next strop is post-shave?)
Thanks so much for everyone who has replied i really appreciate it and it's helped me heaps. At least now i can strop between passes and rest easy at night knowing i won't destroy my SR!
Keep it close
Staighty180!