Thread: Why not strop a shavette?

People have stropped DE blades for a long time, though.

I have a strop for a DE.

Mine is bakelite I think, but they used to make them out of glass also.

if you are going to go through the expense of buying a strop, just get a normal straight.

You can attempt to strop a shavette and still have to replace the blade after X shaves.

Or strop a regular straight and have great shaves every day.

Originally Posted by gregs656

People have stropped DE blades for a long time, though.

True that. But (a) they were made of uncoated carbon steel back then so no anti-friction coatings for the strop to scrape off and (b) the shavette uses *half* a DE blade, which is no longer stroppable using a DE strop because the width is too small and there tends to be bent bits of blade where it was snapped, which will scratch the heck out of your glass/bakelite strop.