Thread: Stropping too much?

Yes it can.
Too much stropping can cause your eyesight to suffer, causing your strokes to become extended & causing you to strike the metal ring or buckle at the end of the strop.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Yes it can.
Too much stropping can cause your eyesight to suffer, causing your strokes to become extended & causing you to strike the metal ring or buckle at the end of the strop.

I don't think it is stropping that causes eyesight failure. You are doing something else that is causing that John.

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Didnt Gssixgun do a strop test, where he stropped a razor umpteegazillion strokes just to prove it wouldnt damage an edge?

I think so. There was also a group that used the same razor and stropped everyday on a pasted strop to see how long until the bevel rounded out and the razor needed to be rehoned and the results of that one were that everyone got bored after a substantial time had passed and nobodys edge was ruined. here have been a few runs at stropping tests and the only results have been if it is done well it does not matter if you strop 50 or a million times, it's all good and you can strop daily on a pasted strop for maintenance and it is just fine too. I do not think your razor would last 100 years with 100 asses a day on a pasted strop but i am not going to spend the rest of my life with one razor on a pasted strop just to find out either. :-)

"Strop often...And prosper!"

If you are stropping on a strop with diamond, CBN, or CrOX abrasive pastes or sprays, you want to limit the number of strokes. This is to prevent the edge from becoming too harsh. FeOx paste is gentle so it should not have this issue.

Excessive stropping on clean cloth or leather may not improve the edge, but it won't hurt it as long as your stropping technique is good.

There is one member here who decompresses by honing on a surgical black Arkansas stone for a couple of hours at a time. With a lot of stones, that amount of honing would remove too much metal, but with the Arkansas stone the edge just becomes burnished.

I wish I had the patience to hone or strop for hours.

Originally Posted by RezDog

I think so. There was also a group that used the same razor and stropped everyday on a pasted strop to see how long until the bevel rounded out and the razor needed to be rehoned and the results of that one were that everyone got bored after a substantial time had passed and nobodys edge was ruined. here have been a few runs at stropping tests and the only results have been if it is done well it does not matter if you strop 50 or a million times, it's all good and you can strop daily on a pasted strop for maintenance and it is just fine too. I do not think your razor would last 100 years with 100 asses a day on a pasted strop but i am not going to spend the rest of my life with one razor on a pasted strop just to find out either. :-)

I did have to shave an ass once. It was gross, and I dont even want to think of 100 asses a day!

I once did an experiment by stropping a razor several thousand times. This was done over the course of a week. It didn't hurt the blade at all. It gave a good shave, but was no better than a normally stropped razor. I'm thinking that after 50 to 100 laps, the benefit of stropping drops off.

Ever since viewing a Maestro Levi video on palm stropping, I always do the same after stropping on leather. For me, it seems to make the shave an extra 10% better.

Originally Posted by Magpie

I did have to shave an ass once. It was gross, and I dont even want to think of 100 asses a day!

Bwaaahahaha!

@RezDog Shaun, I myself wouldn't survive a single day with 100 asses to shave, so whether or not the razor would last a 100 years is totally irrelevant. [emoji38]