Thread: Free Travel Strop

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"
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!

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"
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

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.............