Thread: I need a strop

Tony, will straight razor designs carry their own branded strops made under your supervision


Sorry to temporarily hijack the thread here.

They will be made by me personally just as all of my strops are but carry Lynn and Don's SRD logo. Shaving Shop and Vintage Blades strops will carry my logo.

Tony

I want a strop that I wont need to upgrade. Is this good enough?
http://www.vintagebladesllc.com/vsho...cat=102&page=1

I want it wide so I can just strop back and forth without the X pattern. thanks!
Also, do I need PASTE for this strop??

that will do quite well if you wait for tony to open back up he sells a practice strop with his artisan strops for an additional $6.50 to practice on so you dont cut up that beautiful work of leather by accident

You don’t have your location filled out. Where are you at? Someone may live in your area and be willing to show you how to strop in person.

Paste, it will prolong the time between stone honing. When the blade starts to tug a little you just give it 20-30 passes on some paste, then leather strop it and you have a refreshed edge. However, that will not repair something like a rolled edge or a dropped razor unless you are using some pretty gritty paste. Some things just need a stone to repair. If you strop wrong on paste, you can mess up your edge pretty fast since it is abrasive. I just use 0.5 micron chromium oxide after some feather light passes on my 8K stone and it gives me frighteningly keen edge.