Thread: Some thoughts on stropping

Interesting. Up or down the strop - pressure is pressure, it can be measured (its force, direction, application). Where one applies most pressure - I don't know, may be personal, or may be dependent on many many other things.

My take on this is that I have seen a broken fin (from overhoning) once or twice. That's it. This was a severe case, probably came to me through ebay.

The fin you are describing - what would be necessafy magnification power to see it?

Specifically speaking - i am used to thinking about a fin as one whole, and razors actually show little separate teetch, under the proper magnification... So I conceptualize stropping as simply aligning the teeth. Surely, with pressure some / many / all of them can break - but I have not seen this as I don't have the proper magnification.

Cheers
Ivo

Something interesting I remember reading in one of the shaving threads. It was from one of the manuals in the "Help" section on honing. It mentioned doing the thumb nail test after honing, not only to check the edge, but also to remove the "feather" edge produced by honing.

My understanding is that some of the members here avoid the thumb nail test after honing at higher finishing grits. This leads me to think, based on what I mentioned above, that those blades may still have that "feather" edge remaining. Could it be that this is what's prone to breaking off during stropping?

Just a thought.

Scott