Thread: Stropping DE blades...really?

There are plenty of devices on the market yet for such. Shop around. I stropped some by hand on leather and newspaper. Any "razor hones" you find that are curved by design are made for DE/SE type blades.

how would it not work? honing and stropping don't care the shape of the blade.

then i bought a 100 count lot of blades and promptly began converting to SR.

Can't find a friggin' pic when i want one. Anyhoo, plenty of mechanical devices and simple concave/hollow hones made exactly for that purpose for many years. You (now) should recognize one when you see it.





and 100 more:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...s=bs&form=QBIR


Shavers had been stropping for a thousand years before "throw away blades" came to market. (Throwing useful things away is a product of modernism.) And so there was a very long "un-learning" of the masses how to have a sharp blade. PLUS blades might not have been readily accessible in the outer reaches of civility, so you used 'em UP. Thus all the DE stropping.

Heck I have some original three-holers I may strop up and try.