Thread: Common stropping mistakes?

Experimenting with the height your strop is mounted at can significantly alter stropping performance.
I set my strop hook height by standing upright and to attention so to speak. Then with my arm straight down and fist clenched, mark to the underside of the fist and attach hook to this level.
With the end of the strop hooked on and the hand end pulled taught to my belly button, I get a good down angle to the strop and my hand holding the razor wont stray over the decals or strop iron work. This is with a body attitude of approx 40 deg to the strop.
For some reason I also set my pasted strop hook at nose tip height. This height can work for finishing strops but the razor flip does require wrist action at the top of the stroke.
Making sure the strop is locked to the body at held end helps by allowing you to use your body weight to apply tension to the strop, not with the arm. This take one factor out tof the process leaving you free to concentrate on razor stroke and pressure.

PuFF