So the last time I was at the barber I said I would bring in my straight and have a shave. The mirrors are nice and big and the lighting is better than the small unit we rent. I spent the morning retouching the edge and had it popping hairs nicely on the test. So in I go and set everything up, there were a few punters and some young kids taking an interest. The shop has a good atmosphere and everyone generally kidds around. To the point of the story, I have my strop attached to a balsa board with hair elastics stolen from SWOMBO as I just like the feel of a mounted strop. The barber has had a look at my technique and gone no mate you should do it this way removed the strop and told me to hold it. He then proceeded to do what looks like a stropping motion from a film, big crashing fast strokes however I can hear the edge kind of grinding on the strop.


I have not had a test shave with it yet but I did rub off a little strop dust because he had used it at such an obtuse angle. The art is dying gents, it is our duty to educate the world one shaver at a time. Oh well, back to the preverbal grindstone.