Thread: Well hello hanging strop!

Tried the hanging strop for the first time today...felt like I was taking the training wheels off for sure! but boy it is way easier than stropping on the counter!

I'm just the oposite, I've never counter stropped,,,,,someday I will get one.

Gentlemen,
For me, stropping on the counter is as romantic as sipping lemonade with a Hollywood starlet instead of champagne. Birds were meant to fly, fish to swim and strops to hang — or something like that.

I have never seen a barber that did not use a hanging strop

I am also a fan of the hanging strop for use on straight razors.
I admit that it took quite some time to get a good working understanding of the versatility of the hanging strop.
My bench and paddle strops see a lot of use for knife sharpening.

Originally Posted by Obie

Gentlemen,
For me, stropping on the counter is as romantic as sipping lemonade with a Hollywood starlet instead of champagne. Birds were meant to fly, fish to swim and strops to hang — or something like that.

It's:

"Fish got to swim, birds got to fly,"... Can't help lovin' Dat [hanging] strop oh mine.


For all those gents who'll admit they are... uh, show tune loving lol.

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Ah yes, earcutter, that's from Showboat — Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II — a wonderful musical. I think time has come for a musical on the hanging strop, titled The Golden Strop — or something like that.

Originally Posted by Obie

Ah yes, earcutter, that's from Showboat — Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II — a wonderful musical. I think time has come for a musical on the hanging strop, titled The Golden Strop — or something like that.

"Obie and his amazing Technicolor hanging strop" - I'll help fund that!!

Originally Posted by earcutter

"Obie and his amazing Technicolor hanging strop" - I'll help fund that!!

Oh yes, I like that.

Of course we could also have Obie star in "Obie vs Stropzilla". It would be an instant classic. Sub plot would be Phrank and his flying W & B's against Honilla.