Thread: Can you maintain on pasted hard strop forever?

I agree with the other guys, it'll keep you going a long time but not forever.

I have a denim flatbed hone with diamond spray on it, and that'll keep my razors in good shape for months, but I've had to touch up a few of the older ones on the hones since I started using it. My more recent purchases are still going strong, but the first couple of razors I got have had to make a trip to the hones.

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Originally Posted by Bruno

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Sorry. You're right, awful habit, that. Texting on those tiny screens forces one to send messages that look like "meet 4 drink L8R 2nite @ bob's?" Horrible.

Anyway, looks like all of you are right yet again. Shortly after starting this thread, one of my razors DID get beyond my ability to restore it with the pasted paddle. What happened to it was kind of weird. It didn't convex, or get dull, exactly. It still caught the standing hairs on my arm & felt very grabby, but it just seemed to take too much pressure to cut them. It shaved well, but again took too much pressure. Too bad I don't have an electron microscope in my bathroom to see what's really going on.

30 laps on the Swaty set things right--the razor effortlessly popped arm hairs again after that.

I'm not sure I'm saving any metal by not touching up on the Swaty and the paddle each time. It took 30 laps to fix the damage from a month's worth of shaving. It takes 5 laps to touch up on the Swaty.

I do like the paddle, though. The chrome ox gives me less irritation than shaving right off the Swaty, and the paddle gives me no convexing, compared to a pasted soft strop.

I guess it stands to reason that the paddle wouldn't last forever. If it did, barbers would not have bothered buying barber hones, they'd have just used scraps of oak and rouge, which was both cheap & readily available.

I know this is an old post, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't go on forever stropping on Cr Ox forever. CrOx is an abrasive just like a honing stone, except finer. As long an you strop regularly you will remove just enough material from the blade to keep it perfectly sharp. The only way you could go wrong with this method is if don't strop often enough and let the blade go dull, in which case it would take a very long time to resharpen on CrOx, since it is so fine and cuts slowly.

Yes it's an old post and it's come up before a few times.

The consensus has been, using a pasted strop is viable for long term use if you catch razor early on. Part of the reason most cite is the rounding of the edge caused by using a flexible strop however the motion of the stropping action is another factor. I have bench strops for my pasted use and I still would never consider them for very long term use.

Like they said a few years ago, you can use the strop for quite some time but eventually you need to use the hone. So eventually you'll need the hone anyway so why not get one and just use that? That's the classic way and I think the better one.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...ke-pt-2-a.html

I don't see why it'd be any different than maintaining it on a progression of treated hanging strops.

I just stopped looking for the perfect edge. I tried crox,diamond slurry on felt, sub micron film on granite and pasted leather. My last hone I did was reset the bevel, 1200 dmt, norton 4/8 and the 12k then 30 laps latigo and 50 bridle. Excellent shave and I didnt feel like trying to figure out which strop to use, what paste etc and shaving trying to figure out if it was better or worse than the last shave. I can shave great off the 12k. And if I need a touchup, 10 laps, 10 x strokes and Im golden.