Thread: stropping disposable feather razors

I'm a straight razor newbie, and the idea of disposable blades on Feather razors is appealing. The point is that honing and stropping aren't necessary, but if I wanted to, could I increase the blades' longevity by stropping? Or are the blades simply not build to handle stropping?

You answered your own question. If you wanted to start honing and stropping a feather type razor you may as well get a straight right? So whats the point. I've never used one but I do not believe they are designed to be stropped or honed. In the old days they did have (and you can get them on Eboy) a DE blade sharpener. They are usually made of glass. You could try that.

I am fine with stropping, but sending them away to be honed is inconvenient and I don't want to spend money on a hone to do it myself.

I can understand what you mean about buying a hone, they are expensive, I'm actually saving to buy one myself. I was also planning to get a feather when I first became interested in Straights, but have abandoned the Idea seeing how, it is less costly in the long (and not so long) run of things to just jump to a regular straight. Actually, I think that If you go to The well shaved gentleman site, you can get a strop, razor (shave ready I believe) and a pasted paddle strop (for honing) for only like $185 with two sides pasted to get you started (Along with some other stuff): http://shop.thewellshavedgentleman.c...5&categoryId=5

Check it out

And that´s cheaper than some models of the AC.

If I were inclined to strop my feathers, I think I'd probably go with one of the vintage marble stroppers intended for DEs. They consisted of a wire shaped kind of like wire tongs with loops on each tip, with a pair of marbles held in the loops. You stropped the blade by dragging it between the two marbles. This doesn't depend on the correct proportion of spine width to bevel angle, and it used to work on DE and injector blades so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work on an oversized injector blade like the feather.