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02-18-2009, 11:47 PM #1Demon Barber
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Stropping...anyone brave enough to do this?
have a look at this around 4.20...
(maybe you've seen this before?!!) Why would anyone do this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! How????!?!??!
Well i guess he is the mastro...
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02-19-2009, 12:02 AM
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Either he is a little person, or that razor is HUGE.... I'm not about to try that, I'd cut my hand... but I guess he knows what he's doing.
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02-19-2009, 12:21 AM
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Are you concerned about the hand stropping or the dry shave? Niether is that big a deal for someone of his experience level.
02-19-2009, 02:55 PM
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I sure would like to shave with it after that honing and stropping. It appears to Mastro Livi. I found the back and forth motion unusual.
02-19-2009, 03:16 PM
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One thing strikes me as being a bit weird: when he strops he rolls the razor lifting and rolling it on the edge instead of doing so over the spine. That means that for a portion of the motion the razor is directed at the strop and at the hand. Before I learned to strop correctly (or what here define as being correct) I did it as Mastro Livi is doing. The results were horrid! But then again, if someone knows what he is doing... I guess he does!
And that brings up another question for those who own Mastro Livi razors and those who hone or have honed his razors: when they reach your hands straight from his shop, do you find them to be sharp enough, meaning trully shave ready or do they need honing as if these are, say, TIs or Dovos? Thanks!
02-19-2009, 04:03 PM
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Does anyone know what stones and grit progression he is using? Also, do his razors come really shave ready? or just ready for you to put your final finish on. Just curious. Thanks
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02-19-2009, 05:19 PM
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After all that progressive honing, testing and stropping, they better be shave ready. Conversely, if they are'nt; can they ever be?Originally Posted by jnich67
02-19-2009, 06:13 PM
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Different strokes for different folks. I don't handle my blades and honing anything like that and I can tell you that I wouldn't go bouncing one of my razors off my face like that to test them. But if it works for him, who's to argue.
02-19-2009, 06:31 PM
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Whatever works for him. I think we get a little too scientific sometimes around here and forget that just because it works out on paper doesn't mean it works out on the face. I have yet to hear any complaints about a Livi razor.
That's a big freakin' razor though...jeeze. What's it for, shaving horses?
