Thread: Strop Width, X Pattern and Hot Dog Buns

What the @#&*, you say?

Let me esplain...

There's an issue over whether or not the X pattern in stropping is really necessary. Is it just a means to hit every part of the straight razor at once, or does the X pattern have a more functional purpose?

Thus, some choose the 3" wide strop. That way they don't need to do the X pattern. Since the width of the 3" gets the whole razor with a simple back-and-forth up-and-down-the-strop stroke all at once, why bother?

But if that was all there was to stropping, why did the old time strop makers make their strops 2.25" wide?

Is it the same as the hot dog makers and the hot dog bun bakers? You know, 8 hot dogs in a pack, but only 6 buns to a bag. Why can't they just make them the same?? I know, it's just a clever ploy to get us to buy more bags of buns. Those bastards.

If the X pattern wasn't necessary, and a 3" wide strop would eliminate it's use, then why the heck didn't those old-timers just make all their strops 3" wide? Were they daft?

And, did those same guys just stop making strops, and start making hot dog buns instead? Just to piss us off...


Scott