Thread: Can you maintain on pasted hard strop forever?

Originally Posted by Bruno

I edited the thread title and changed it to 'can you ...' instead of 'can u ...'
I'd hate to see texting spelling make its way into the forum.

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.