Free Travel Strop

I think most people on here know this trick already ...

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I was talking with one of the Facebook people earlier about a Travel Strop.
I sent a pic of a Newspaper and said: "That is what I use, it is free and I get a new strop each morning" :p
He asked how to use it ...

Although most papers now use a new safer ink that is not as abrasive as in the past, a newspaper is still an awesome stropping surface in itself ..

I did a YouTube vid to explain the way it works by request..

Simple, Fast, Easy, Effective and best of all FREE !!!

Travel Stropping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NmN...OjCnnSr7H8YxG0

Great tip Glen.

Years ago when I first started straight shaving I stropped using newspaper on the kittchen counter for months before I bought my first stop. I'm convinced this saved me from destroying my first strop, which I still have.
It's the definitely the way to go when you want to travel light.

Pete <:-}

Great video..

Needed this last week. Nice tip!

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Originally Posted by gssixgun

I think most people on here know this trick already ...

-BUT-

I was talking with one of the Facebook people earlier about a Travel Strop.
I sent a pic of a Newspaper and said: "That is what I use, it is free and I get a new strop each morning" :p
He asked how to use it ...

Although most papers now use a new safer ink that is not as abrasive as in the past, a newspaper is still an awesome stropping surface in itself ..

I did a YouTube vid to explain the way it works by request..

Simple, Fast, Easy, Effective and best of all FREE !!!

Travel Stropping

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Another value with news paper is you can take one or two sheets and roll it up into a tube.
Then use it to strop. It will collapse with too much pressure. And you can practice the flip
and should you get it a bit wrong all you slice is newspaper.

And it works as a strop and it is a natural X stroke tutor.

The light touch lesson pays dividends when honing on rocks too but the flip
is different.

This technique really works! When I first started shaving with a straight razor I couldn't afford a decent leather/linen strop so I used both denim and newspaper to strop my razors.............