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May the controversy continue, bro! It's safe to say, "Different strokes for different folks."

Me too. I guess SRPers take their stropping seriously! :)

Good point, Dave, but off topic. Nowhere did I say that stropping makes no difference. Of course it does. My OP simply noted that I have found that stropping isn't required before every shave....

Having started this thread my conclusion is that, really, stropping before every shave, more than sharpening your razor, softens your beard. The longer that soap has to work its way in, the smoother...

Interesting point of view, but my OP was neither provocative nor poorly presented. It was an objective observation, and as such, certainly worthy of posting. As I last noted, the...

AFD, thoughtful reply for which I am appreciative. First, it's been amusing seeing the comments that my stropping technique is deficient. Or that I don't know how to properly sharpen a razor. Ad...

I appreciate you sticking to this w/ some balance (& some humor). I am familiar w/ what's on the forum, and have spent 100s of hours stropping during my 1,000s of straight razor shaves. My point...

As I said earlier, try it yourselves. The rest is just opinion, and words, words, words (for instance, stropping is "Burnishing, Polishing, Re-aligning").

Come on. My point was that you don't...

Told you it was heresy! :) But before the crowd assembles and starts looking for the tar and feathers, try it yourself. Use a good pre-shave, lather up, let a couple minutes pass and then shave,...

Haha! You may have hit on the truth. Stropping away for a while allows the soap to soften beard hairs. I grant you that. But: Does stropping really sharpen the razor? We all believe it does. But... I...

To strop or not to strop? The question was answered long ago, right? Well, I admit to stropping far less than I used to... And at times I'll skip it entirely without a loss of a good shave.

For...