Thread: Sloppy strop?

If you don't already have a lighted loupe consider purchasing one from the Bay. There around six dollars with free shipping. Once you can see your edges under magnification the world becomes your oyster.

TC -- Yes! My first razors were bought "shave ready" because I knew from these forums that I should definitely look for that. One of two things happened. Either, A) they were not or, B) they are not now after my early learning curve stroppings jacked the edges. I'm leaning towers the latter. Apparently my stropping has improved to the point that given a known edge was right, and I stropped it, and it was still good or better.

Spanky -- thanks for that! I remembered that I have somewhere in my house (have to ask my SWMBO where she organized it to now) a binocular illuminated microscope of the type we used in Plant Taxonomy to identify plants. Found it at a garage sale. Looking forward to getting home to do some bevel comparisons. And shaving.

Thanks.

Spencer

I hope your binocular microscope works well for you. My microscope doesn't work well for razors, it has to much magnification and it's difficult to position the razor in the proper position. My six dollar lighted loupe from the Bay works much better for razors. Good Luck

IIRC, its low setting is a straight 10x. It's not a high powered type to look at cells and such. It's more for looking at leaves, flowers, stamen, pistils, and such. Good for "hair" on plants. Hopefully it will do the trick. I have a loupe also for when I was in the field, but not lighted. Plus, there is absolutely no telling where SWMBO has "organized" it to.

SS