Thread: Over Stropping?

Howdy all,

I was wondering if it was possible to over strop a blade?

Or is stropping just good news all around no matter how much?

Originally Posted by basil

Howdy all,

I was wondering if it was possible to over strop a blade?

Or is stropping just good news all around no matter how much?

good news.
i have never seen anyone over strop.
we are not talking about paste etc just clean lather stropping.

Yup just leather and canvas stropping

I think it would take a whole lot of stropping to get to that point. A lot of guys routinely strop 50 linen & 100 leather before a shave. Just a wild guess, but I doubt we'd see anything nerve-racking before 1000 laps. Of course I'm assuming that your technique is correct the whole time.

Anyone up for an experiment?

I always do 50/100 before a shave and 25/50 after one.

Well I just finished stroping a razor for an hour that had magically lost its edge. Figure I was doing 1 lap per 2 seconds on average - 15 minutes of testing and getting the feeling back in my forearm. Other than recovering the edge and making it hard to type I don't think anything ill has come of it.

_Will

I have to agree that (if done correctly) canvas/leather is a good thing and you can never have too much of a good thing IMO

Information on this can be found here and here. There are other threads too. General consensus is no, but if you're inexperienced, the more you do beyond the required, the more likely you are to perform a bad stroke.

basil,

With good stropping I would doubt if any harm is done at all.

With bad stropping, much harm could be done.

When I started, I took the edge off my first razor four (4) times by bad stropping

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

Other than wasting your time, there is no problem with over stropping.