Thread: Does the amount of draw mean anything?

More personal preference it seems. Many find having more draw lends greater control to the stropping motion though some feel the sensation of draw hinders proper stropping motion. I do think in the end, whether high or low draw just about any strop with a really noce surface will do the same job, high or low draw.

On an interesting note I was mailing packages on Friday and the older clerk at the post office noticed "razor strop" written on the customs form. He mentioned that his father was a barber and he still remembered his father stropping razors and the unique "popping" sound they made at the end of each stroke when he lifted, and then slapped the razor back down. I asked him about his Dad and he said he had passed in 1973. That is a long time to still remember that sound.

Tony