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07-08-2010, 12:53 AM #1
I always do 60 canvas 120 leather.
I always like to strop my blade alot. It always relaxes me and one of the funnest parts of my shave.Shaving_story on Instagram
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fish4life (07-08-2010)
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07-08-2010, 12:55 AM #2
I thinks therefore I strop. Ok I need to stop the madness I've probably posted more times today than I have in a year.
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fish4life (07-08-2010)
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07-08-2010, 01:04 AM #3
I thought stropping right after a shave was a bad thing?
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07-08-2010, 01:30 AM #4
Instructions from Kropp razor box
“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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07-08-2010, 01:41 AM #5
My great grandfather was a barber and always stropped on the linen immediately after shaving. He said that it cleaned the edge, and that the heat generated by the friction evaporated any microscopic droplets of water. I'm no expert, I've only been using a SR for about a month-- but if it was good enogh for him, it's good enough for me.
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fish4life (07-08-2010)
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07-08-2010, 01:50 AM #6
I have read a lot of conflicting information on this issue and of course there seems to be people equally on both sides of the fence. However one good source. Which obviously is not so good, because I can't find it right now, makes the claim that because after shaving the microscopic teeth have yet to settle back down to their ideal alignment stropping after shaving will break those teeth off causing a rougher or more jagged edge. Whether this is true or not I do not know, nor can I tell the difference. I have not actually seen enough good photographic evidence under an electron microscope to know myself. But I usually don't bother to strop after shaving myself, but for no particular reason.
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07-08-2010, 02:25 AM #7“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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