Thread: Don't slice your strop in half

Several years ago as I was preparing to shave I took one of my better strops, I think it was a Tony Miller and started stropping the razor as I had done a thousand times before and I realized I was stropping in the wrong direction meaning the razor in the wrong direction

I have a very light touch when I strop so the damage was "minimal". Why did I do that just that one time? Was I just not thinking?

In reality these things happen to everybody. How many tradesmen have serious accidents with tools they use every day. Ask anyone who carries a weapon every day as part of their job for many years if they ever had an "accidental discharge".

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Several years ago as I was preparing to shave I took one of my better strops, I think it was a Tony Miller and started stropping the razor as I had done a thousand times before and I realized I was stropping in the wrong direction meaning the razor in the wrong direction

I have a very light touch when I strop so the damage was "minimal". Why did I do that just that one time? Was I just not thinking?

Funny you say that.

I bought a really cheapo crap strop for about $20 from Amazon. I just wanted something I could coat with Crox.

I gave that cheap black strop a good coating of Crox and turned it green, I did put it on quite heavily so it took two days to dry.

A couple of days later i got out a beater, set the bevel and progressed to 12K.
I turned to my new Crox strop intending to finish on it but I suppose because i had been edge leading on the stones, I put my razor on the strop and without thinking did a complete edge leading lap. I shaved all my new Crox off.
The strop is still greenish and still works as a Crox strop but it doesn't look like I intended it to.