Thread: Identifying a convex bevel caused by extensive pasted stropping

For the last couple of years I have pasted daily on CBN 20-30 laps and shaved straight off the CBN, no leather with a very smooth crisp edge. I do this with a rotation, shaving with the same razor for a week or two, then a new different razor.

A few years ago I too did the pasted stropping daily test with CBN and with a MAAS pasted strop for a year with the same results, same razor. A years’ worth of great shave.

Recently in another thread, AFDavis commented on polishing a bevel by stropping as opposed to automatically completely re honing the bevel.

After thinking about his comments, it is not unusual to find pristine razors well over a hundred years old that clearly were shaved with but there is no or a very light (one honing) bevel on the spine. I doubt they were taped, they were maintained with stropping, stropping paste were common in the early 1900’s

There is no doubt by me that a razor can be maintained indefinitely with paste and possibly with plain leather.

I also wonder about the “Convex Theory”, and if what really happened is someone lifted the spine while stropping and called it Convex. Kind of like over honing…