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05-18-2012, 10:14 AM #28
To be honest, i almost never count the laps when stropping, i just stand there and strop for a while about a minute between the 2 sides... that and it works well for me and has for quite a while. i tell people 20/50 because they like numbers and if they do not have a minimum count they will try and find it.
like many things regarding shaving the things we learn when we start out are the habits we tend to keep, i strop the way i do because that is how my my dad did, and he probably learned it from his dad. i know i strop more than the barber does when i used to get a shave... he was a 10/20 stropper if that much but he
always used a coticule before the strop.
perhaps i should go away again, you lads had "discovered" lots of new things about razors and shaving in the last couple of years, stropping regimens, dulling the edge on a glass before honing, wales is in the thuringian region of germany and who know what else.
YMMV,
jim