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Cool, so thats the guy who makes them.
Hmm..I would never want to strop in my hand..:eek:
Well I guess he is just a bit more experienced than me.
:thinking: he's rolling towards the ednge and not the spine? HUH!?
and ditto on the palm stropping...i'd be missing half my hand
I was a bit puzzled by his stropping technique as well. For the first couple of strokes, I thought I heard the high pitched "buzzing" that means the edge was on the strop while the spine was not. But I'm sure there is some rationale or reason behind the technique. After all, he does have waaay more experience than I do, not to mention the razor shaved.
Two years ago when on vacation in costa rica I used my belly as a strop. It seemed to work ok for a few days until I had a little to much to drink the night before. You can can't hardly see the scar anymore. :p DS
This way of stropping has been discussed before.
Basically: if you really know what you are doing, then this way of stropping can be used.
You have to make sure that the edge doesn't hit the strop before the spine, and that you never put more pressure on the edge than on the spine.
As long as you do that, it doesn't matter how you do it. Of course, this is exremely error prone, and if you make this error on a pasted strop, the edge will be toast. Don't ask me how I know :cry: It was my newbie sin, and ultimately my trigger to search and find SRP.
His stropping technique is the way my dad strops, as taught by his father. I've said it before, but as a reminder, my grandfather was a barber, and evidently that was the way it was done years ago, apparently. Now the hand stropping.....I've never seen that done by my dad.:thinking:
Your dad probably didn't work with a hammer and anvil all day... I was kind of expecting him to strop on his hand and finish it on the belt :)Quote:
Originally Posted by iron maiden
That's amazing! It goes to how much is down to experience & the right touch. If i stropped like that I'd have a rolled edge & carved up strop. It looks so hit & miss, with one side receiving far more attention on the strop than the other. Then he slaps it across his palm a few times & it mows through the un-prepped beard like you wouldn't believe!
Thanks for posting.
The rolling X stropping motion on the heel of his hand gradually across the edge of the blade from heel to toe to heel and to toe again is pretty cool
The Mastro is amazing. I couldn't begin to strop like that. At first I was surprised at how much force he appears to be using on the strop but watching it again I realized that the edge would have to be barely touching the linen/leather.
I have one of his loom strops and I have always just used the weight of the blade on the linen. When I first got it I was surprised that the linen was so liberally coated with crom ox. Some people say less is more with any paste. The loom strop works just spiffy as it is though.
My barber told me that he use to hand strop in the sixties when he was honing and stropping some razors.Quote:
Originally Posted by iron maiden
The skin of the hand is probably similar to the leather in the strop, no? Leather = skin?
Yes, and I expect even more so for people who work with their hands. The added advantage is that your hand will fix itself in the event of nicks or cuts :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Leon
Those steel forging hands look a little rough, probably would be like hitting a rough canvas strop lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Leon
A true Artisan. I'll bet he sleeps well every night after swinging that hammer all day.:rock:
that's great! I need to book a flight to italy
Truly a master at work.
Thx for posting those, Lynn!
Wow that blade is massive! And what a cool way to do a hair test...
So, Lynn :w
Is 4:45 your usual sharpening timefor a new blade too?:cool:
Less really is more.
Lynn, these videos are great, thanks for posting them! It's really interesting to see how someone of such considerable experience has thrown out some of the basic golden rules in favour of his own techniques which must have been arrived at after decades of practice. The honing (back and forth), the stropping (slap and roll on edge as opposed to spine), and of course the hand stropping (again, turning over on the edge!:eek:).
I had the good fortune to see him do the hand stropping in person -- it really is fast as a blur. Talk about muscle-memory! And he showed me his technique for stropping on a loom. For the forseeable though, I reckon I'll stick to the basics!
Edit: that looks like Stephen's (Makar) 'snake' custom Livi in the third clip.
What an amazing video! I have noticed that in comparison I treat the razor like a very fragile think and the video made me realize that the fragile think is my face and that the blade itself is pretty resilient. It is always fascinating to watch a skilled craftsman at work thanks for the videos Lynn.
Wow! I hope your happy! I almost just went and bought the first Mastro I could find.