Thread: Question about post-shave stropping

If you consider it, post-shave and pre-shave stropping are identical. Every post-shave stropping occurs before the next shave, and every pre-shave stropping occurs after the last one.

The only function of post-shave stropping is to get the crud off your razor and onto your strop.

True, I have considered that, but there does appear to be a fair amount of support for the notion that they serve different purposes based on when they are performed: pre-stropping to enhance the blade's function of cutting the beard and post-stropping to enhance the preservation of the edge itself.

Still, post-shave stropping done 24 hours prior to the subsequent shave has the same effect as stropping right before the shave.

I'm dumfounded that this is even being discussed with some level of seriousness.

I dip my razors in Gypsy tears after shaving and forgo stropping altogether - works like a charm - literally.

-john

Seriously? Me?

Originally Posted by ocelot27

I'm dumfounded that this is even being discussed with some level of seriousness.

I dip my razors in Gypsy tears after shaving and forgo stropping altogether - works like a charm - literally.

-john

Isn't the salt in the tears corrosive? 😂


B.

I can't see why any piece of metal would need a "rest" after a shave. My own pattern has been that after shaving, I go 40/70 cloth and leather, mainly so that if the next morning I have to shave in a hurry, I will have the razor already stropped. I give the razor about 30 strokes on the leather prior to shaving simply to insure it's fresh, though it might not be necessary. I"ve done it all kinds of ways. Sometimes I just stick with one razor for a week, other times I get about 3 and rotate through them, just depending on what I feel like. I have a little system for categorizing each razor's quality in shaving, and when I use razors that are comparable, whether it's every day or alternating, they all shave equally well.

I have stopped all post shave stropping. I strop well before each shave and most razors don't come back to shave again for a couple of weeks. I am drying more carefully and they get stored in sack ups. I have noticed no difference in shaves stropped after and then again before.