Thread: What is your emergency strop?

My belt...but I'm seldom without my Unicorn Hide strop...puts a magical edge on my blades!

I too have used Levi's. Either on me or hanging up.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

The skin of my wifes thigh,same thigh she rolls custom cigars on

My wife has put up with a lot of shaving related stuff, I think if I tried to strop a blade on her lag she'd call a therapist! I think this might be asking too much, SWMBO would probably withhold all baked goodies for a year!

If I thought I had to use something in an emergency and I couldn't shave without stropping I'd use a ...DE

I have yet to forget my strop, but jeans and/or palm would be my first choice. That unless I for some wicked reason should have put a DE in my dopp kit instead of the strop.

Sometimes I've used a leather belt. This is at work where sometimes I've packed a razor, when it's a weekday and I didn't have time to shave at home. I've used my forearm but on the multiblade plastic Gilletes. This was when I was on the road to straights around late 2010. I made one last almost a year.

Just grab ahold of the window curtain and give it a good stretch, then start stropping.

Or a thickness of newspaper wrapped around a hardcover book.

Rite-Aid has Bic Shavers. Sabatooogee!

Palm strop. One time, in a hotel, they had one of those thick canvas blankets at the foot of the bed. It was a real nice hotel and looked and felt like linen so I folded it a stropped away. Yep! Worked well.

The seat belt in the car for my fabric followed by forearm

When I was in London and the bag with my stop ended up in Barcelona I used the pants leg of my jeans.
Newspaper works well too.