Thread: To strop or not to strop. (Howard Schechter) Videos

Originally Posted by Aerdvaark

This is all so strange how people can be having such differing results with stropping. Me, I find that anything more than 7 or 8 light passes on a bare strop kills the edge...................And with anything other than Burt's yellowstone on the strop, like crox, kills the edge immediately....................................... .....................

This is interesting, I'll try it and post my results

I tend to notice that folks involved in the "Professional" aspect of the straight razor / wet shaving business, like to distinguish themselves from other competitors with a technique or style that might seem new or unique. This may garner followers or not depending if you agree with his methods, but it becomes their trademark or signature move. just look around at all the vendors or edge gurus out there and they all seem to have some honing shtick that they call their own. Now I don't doubt that coming off an ultra fine stone like a 30k that 10 laps on leather would be sufficient to give you a good shave but as you see in the video he claims more is worse. That is his proposal and makes people scratch their heads saying to themselves " hmmm maybe this guy is on to something" now he has your attention good or bad hes got you thinking about him. its a kind of subtle marketing to separate himself from the pack they all do it. Think even back when Murray Carter started talking about honing razors with unorthodox techniques and all that it got the community in an uproar. Now everybody in wet shaving knows his name, when before maybe only the knife guys did. You see what happens?