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    I guess I'm guilty of stropping on my thumb every morning. I clean the shaving cream off of the blade with a stropping motion across my thumb rather than rinsing it under the tap. I truely do not know if this helps to keep the edge in tune, but I can say that I've never felt the need to do any mid-shave stropping as is often recommended by some of our members. I can also say that I've never taken a bite out of my thumb with the razor (although now that I've said it, I am almost assured that it will bite me tomorrow).

    Just another data point,
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    Quote Originally Posted by ForestryProf View Post
    I guess I'm guilty of stropping on my thumb every morning. I clean the shaving cream off of the blade with a stropping motion across my thumb rather than rinsing it under the tap. I truely do not know if this helps to keep the edge in tune, but I can say that I've never felt the need to do any mid-shave stropping as is often recommended by some of our members. I can also say that I've never taken a bite out of my thumb with the razor (although now that I've said it, I am almost assured that it will bite me tomorrow).

    Just another data point,
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    That's a good point - I also wipe the cream and stubble off the edge with my thumb. I never thought about it, but I guess that's a form of stropping. Hmmm.

    But hey, why not? If you can hone a razor on newsprint, why not strop on the hand? Presumably not as good as a leather strop, but if one's not available...

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    I wipe the lather off with a wash cloth while I'm
    shaving. Not quite the same, but close I suppose.



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    Just don't go looking for a body part to strop on in the shower.

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    Quote Originally Posted by murph View Post
    Just don't go looking for a body part to strop on in the shower.
    ...and that begs the question....Why does RichZ *really* shave commando?

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    I don't know about the rest of you, but my hands are not flat...so how do you strop on them?

    Jordan

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    Flat is over rated I feel, at least on strops. Yes, 100% contact across razor and strop is desired but I doubt any strops, including mine, can stay that way through all that we subject them too. Rolling, folding, humidity, dry air, flexing, rubbing etc... all takes its toll. As long as 100% of the blade makes contact at some point or the other before the stroke or pass along the strop is completed it will do it's job. Yes, more contact is better but in most cases a slight pressure, a pliable strop held reasonably taut will result in maybe 90% contact which will do just fine. The hand or thumb is very small but if you contact 100% of the blade on each pass with even 15% of your hand the entire edge still got stropped. It may take more passes but the edge got what it needed.

    On a stone though flat is VERY importnat as it is abrasive and unyielding.

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    In the past 3-4 months I am stropping on the palm between passes. That started mainly because of what I heard about that practice in the past, and partly because I am not happy to take the strop in the bathroom (somehow the moisture might get into the strop, but that's discussion for another thread)

    So far, it is working jeeest fine, the razor is as sharp as ever. I'll continue and report in several months...

    Nenad

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    I've found a sort of arc motion (combined with a lateral slide) over the ball of the thumb pretty much gets contact with the whole edge when wiping off stubble and cream.

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    When I ruined my Puma's edge on a pasted paddle, and gave it to the seller for re-honing (he did worse than me) he told me "Never use a strop, only the palm of your hand".
    I don't know if it's useful or not but, after shaving and rinsing the blade, I strop on hand 3-4 times to clean the blade and dry it.

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