Thread: Keeping edge on razor

Just to clarify something:

If the razor is "shave-ready" (it has a "known-good" edge), you should use a plain leather strop to keep it sharp.

When a plain leather strop doesn't keep it sharp -- after many shaves -- that will be the time to investigate pasted strops and/or microabrasive paper.

I strongly suggest that, if you want to learn honing, you learn it on a different razor -- preferably a really inexpensive one.

Charles

PS -- I've used sandpaper and the 5-micron Lee Valley microabrasive sheets for sharpening; they work fine, _if_ you have a dead-flat surface to support them. There's an article in the Wiki on using micro-abrasive sheets that you should read.