Thread: Under Stropping

Originally Posted by sharptonn

AHA! You are up from 40/80 and never told me! Unfair!

Thats why your smooth, but I'm SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH.......

It sounds a little like stropping on rubber embedded with diamonds occupies a space between stropping and honing?

Originally Posted by Tarkus

I'm a huge stropping advocate 45 passes on my Lipshaw Microtome diamond rubber side, 100+ passes on leather side.

Originally Posted by WW243

It sounds a little like stropping on rubber embedded with diamonds occupies a space between stropping and honing? with

No diamonds in it!
Just diamond patterned material!

Wonder if that would work with the ring thing? Honey, I just got you a new diamond ring....well no, it isn't sparkly, it's rubber diamonds.....I had a budget to work with......

I was trying to recall back in the day waiting for my haircut as a kid and watching the barbers shave customers how many strokes they did on the strop. It was so fast it was hard to tell but probably 15 complete passes before every customer including when they used a straight to trim my sideburns and the back of my head.

Helps explain the success of the double edge razor.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I was trying to recall back in the day waiting for my haircut as a kid and watching the barbers shave customers how many strokes they did on the strop. It was so fast it was hard to tell but probably 15 complete passes before every customer including when they used a straight to trim my sideburns and the back of my head.

I find 30-40 on leather works for me, a few more for my wedges.

40 Linen 100 Leather....gets easier all the time: most important tip from the Philly guy for me....relax your hand...light pressure

Even if i stropped 40/80 to finish a razor after honing, if it has "rested" more than a few hours (without oiling), then i'm always going to give it 20/40 just to clear the edge of oxidation, before shaving. I'm more of a 20/40 after and 40/80 before guy.

But those are rounded numbers. I like "44" and "84" and sometimes "66" as i can attach sentimental values to those numbers...oh how the mind wanders.

I pretty much stick to 30 linen/60 leather... always seems to work out well.

Sometimes, though, if I'm just into it, I'll just keep going after the 60 on leather, not counting at all. That, my friends, is always a nice shave.