Thread: Stropping On The Hand, Again

You'll note that the entire outside of your palm in raised when you stretch your hand backward. That is what I use, but I'm not in the habit of stropping with my hand only. Given the gentleman Tony is referring to probably doesn't own a strop . . .

Tony, was this a straight?

Alan,
No he had a plain single edged razor blade he took out of a box cutter he was using. Stopped it briskly on the heel of his hand, snapped it back into the box cutter and it was good as new. Later in the day he was "sharpening" his bench knife on a piece of aluminum casting flashing. This comes out of the sann with a rough abrasive texture.
Pretty ingenious guy.

Tony

After honing a chisel, plane iron etc I always strop it on the palm of my hand and very briskly too. This was taught to me by an old Shipwright I trained under. I can not see why this could not work for a razor but I think the testing should be done by a more adventurous person than me

PuFF

on Saturday (the 5th) TMC ran a spaghetti western called "My Name is Nobody", the beginning and ending scenes were of someone getting a straight shave. In the opening sequence they show a close up of the "barber" (wasn't a real barber, but I won't spoil it for you) , stropping on his palm.