Thread: no need for all these very expensive stones heres a cheap one.

Originally Posted by Johnus

Last year I bought a 1900's Boker sight unseen from an antiques dealer who says she purchased it from an elderly woman she knew. The woman told her it was her father's who shaved with it everyday until he died.
To my surprise when it arrived, it looked almost new! and almost shave ready. When I wrote back to tell them how pleased I was, they said that the father had only used a Strop to maintain it. The woman still had her father's Strop but wasn't ready it sell it.
If true, it seems a possibility to only use leather to keep a great edge!

Yes, I've only Stropped it the few times that I've used it. Beautiful razor.

My mother told me the same thing. My grandfather only ever used a strop (leather only, no paste etc) to maintain his razors. And he used them for most of his life!!!

Originally Posted by Poss272

My mother told me the same thing. My grandfather only ever used a strop (leather only, no paste etc) to maintain his razors. And he used them for most of his life!!!

Well, I asked a lot of old folks and some say they only used a strop, no pastes or hones ever... but when I tell them that sooner or later you will have an very round edge that might not work so well, they all said; -Well, then you take it to someone to get it honed!