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    Default Stropping vid

    ZIP, ZIP, ZIP!

    Canvas side


    Swish, swish, swish

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    Good vid, Seraphim!

    Ya know, I always like your use of onamotapoeia in your posts. It makes them more fun.

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    Was this filmed on location in Japan?

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    Thanks man.
    for keeping the towel on under your robe

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    Quote Originally Posted by jnich67 View Post
    Was this filmed on location in Japan?

    Jordan
    Yup. Filmed in the land of the rising sun (after the sun had gone down, however.....)

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevint View Post
    Thanks man.
    for keeping the towel on under your robe


    I always shave with a towel girding my loins (protection against dropped razors, and also to strop shmutz off the balde during a shave). It was the robe that was the new addition. They had them here at the hotel, so I threw one on for style.

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    Cool video thanks. Brings to mind when I was over at forum member The Topher's house and he watched me strop a razor. I had been doing it awhile and like you I could go pretty fast. He told me that I shouldn't be turning my wrist to flip the blade but rather should use my thumb. Later I read this in the barber manual excerpt on honing and stropping found in the SRP help files here.

    "The razor is held with the thumb on top of the shank and rolled in the hand without moving the wrist. This not only makes for equal pressure on both strokes, but also makes the act more graceful and easy."

    So I guess that turning the wrist as opposed to using the thumb with a stiff wrist might cause a variation in pressure ? I know that when I worked on changing from turning my wrist to flipping with my thumb it wasn't graceful or easy at first. So that is the way I am doing it now. I am curious if anyone else has an opinion on there being a "right" way or is one as good as the other ?
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    thank you for that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    "The razor is held with the thumb on top of the shank and rolled in the hand without moving the wrist. This not only makes for equal pressure on both strokes, but also makes the act more graceful and easy."
    That's the way I do it but I have no opinion about whether it's "right" or "wrong".

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    Cool video thanks. Brings to mind when I was over at forum member The Topher's house and he watched me strop a razor. I had been doing it awhile and like you I could go pretty fast. He told me that I shouldn't be turning my wrist to flip the blade but rather should use my thumb. Later I read this in the barber manual excerpt on honing and stropping found in the SRP help files here.

    "The razor is held with the thumb on top of the shank and rolled in the hand without moving the wrist. This not only makes for equal pressure on both strokes, but also makes the act more graceful and easy."

    So I guess that turning the wrist as opposed to using the thumb with a stiff wrist might cause a variation in pressure ? I know that when I worked on changing from turning my wrist to flipping with my thumb it wasn't graceful or easy at first. So that is the way I am doing it now. I am curious if anyone else has an opinion on there being a "right" way or is one as good as the other ?
    On a suggestion from AFDavis a long time ago, I practiced the stationary wrist and flip the tang with thumb and finger as illustrated and described in the old barber manual excerpts that used to be in the archive here but I think are gone now. I printed out the page and taped it on my bathroom wall. I don't know if there is a right or wrong as long as it works.

    Liked your vid, Saraphim. Using the technique I use, I can't go as fast as you do. I may have to try your method for fun.

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