Thread: Old-school stropping vs modern stropping.

Wow, great information all around.

Until now, I've only had one shave-ready razor, so letting it rest wasn't an option. I've got a second razor on the way from a member here, and I think once it arrives, I'll have to start rotating them, and see what happens to the edge if I let them go a while without stropping.

Worst case scenario, I'll learn something interesting and have an excuse to either send them out to be re-honed, or an excuse to finally buy a honing setup.


side-note: I use wikipedia all the time, and it never even occurred to me to look up stropping. Oh well.

Get a small barber hone. They hone slow and you can't hardly do any damage with them. I let the blades rest often. I use three razors, but mostly shave with a single blade every other day.

I actually just got a nice little 2-sided barber hone a couple of weeks ago, and it works EXTREMELY well.

I touched my razor up with it after 6 weeks of daily use, and it made a HUGE difference. About 3 laps on the red side, and 5 on the blue/gray side, and it felt almost as good as when gugi sent it to me.