Thread: What do you do to fix your nicks?

What do you do to fix your nicks?

Make sure I'm not tired or drunk when stropping.

but.... I use diamond plates for strop repairs.

Just don't nick it...Unless you've already nicked it, in which case I don't want to know about your light fingered way of life.


Mick

Originally Posted by Johnus

Dont know if youve tried this or not. If the nicks are small and on the edges of the strop they can sometimes just be trimmed out by making them into a small "V" instead of the flap. That way you won't catch the blade.

This works anywhere, provided the nick isn't too deep. I just trim the flap off at an angle so the nick is more like a small trench, then I sand over it to smooth it down and bobs your uncle. Though all my nicks are in pretty much the same place and near the end, and they really are not deep.

Originally Posted by MickR

Just don't nick it...Unless you've already nicked it, in which case I don't want to know about your light fingered way of life.


Mick

No doubt if it was this type of nicking, the nicker would just nick another, just don't nick mine it's already nicked, and dont get caught or you'll end up in nick.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

This works anywhere, provided the nick isn't too deep. I just trim the flap off at an angle so the nick is more like a small trench, then I sand over it to smooth it down and bobs your uncle. Though all my nicks are in pretty much the same place and near the end, and they really are not deep.

You have a flipping issue then don't cha!


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

You have a flipping issue then don't cha!


Mick

Arrrggggghhhhh, me hearty, I suffer(ed) from the common handle end heel side flip nick affliction. I seem to have mostly recovered

Originally Posted by edhewitt

...heel side flip nick affliction...

You have HSFNA? I have some of that myself. Might should start a support group or try to get vaccinated against it. This terrible illness costs daydreaming shavers a fortune in strop replacements each year.

(I have had luck with fine sandpaper or a fingernail file to smooth out gouges, crevasses, nicks or slices.)

Seeing as it usually only affects the last few inches of stropping surface, or about the last 4-6" of strop we could start a business selling rolled strop dispensers, like paper towel roll holders, so you could cut off the end of the strop and just pull out a bit more from the dispenser which would effectively form the anchor point for the strop. Alternatively lefty and Righty stroppers could pair up and swap strops when their affected areas got too bad. Or we could buy em up cheap and make em into paddle strops and sell them back to the bozo sorry person we bought them from.

I put a few in mine when i first strarted Straight shaving "up at the top". I learned to slow down a little (I don't live in a western movie) and i moved down the strop to the handel end, I found it workes better you me anyway. But i have been thinking about this very thing lately. thanks for the tips guys.
Rich

Originally Posted by RDM2

I put a few in mine when i first strarted Straight shaving "up at the top". I learned to slow down a little (I don't live in a western movie) and i moved down the strop to the handel end, I found it workes better you me anyway. But i have been thinking about this very thing lately. thanks for the tips guys.
Rich

The way I stropped when I first started, you would have thought I was looking for a role in a Western as a barber. Strop isn't too pretty, but not too bad either considering (Yes I still have that first strop). More harm was done to the edge of the razor way back then...Almost 20 years ago now...Geez I feel old all of a sudden...


Mick