Thread: Do we strop too much ?

This thread has been on my mind. While I prefer a less is more approach with maintaining razors *and* also maintain that slower, more accurate and delicate laps is more effective that a bunch of hasty laps on the leather, I shudder to think that 2-3 laps is enough. For me, that is.

I've proved to myself that I can take an edge that just faintly has the grab on the TP test and turn it into a biting monster with about 80 laps. Just did it again minutes ago. I would not have shaved with it before the stropping and certainly not with 2-3 laps.

I feel ample stropping is critical to shave success and, without it, mediocrity or, even worse, failure.