Thread: Ambidextrous stropping?

I'm left handed but strop with my right hand. For some reason using my left for stropping feels awkward, strange.

I wish I could.

First off, I've never quite nailed stropping with my dominant hand. Yes, I get the motion, but smooth contact stropping is just hard for me. Now, I recently tweaked my wrist and am forced to strop with my off hand (my dominant wrist makes a cracking noise when I strop). Amazingly, using my off hand seems to glide right along! I noticed that my shaves are better and the razor feels sharper and more comfortable. Stropping just feels and sounds right with the off hand. Albeit slower, I will stick with it...

Funny how things work out for the better some times...

There are only 2 things i would never do with my left hand,and one of them is stropping.

Originally Posted by nessmuck

There are only 2 things i would never do with my left hand,and one of them is stropping.

LOL I hope the other is "use the salt shaker".

Originally Posted by Shoki

LOL I hope the other is "use the salt shaker".

You are correct!! LOL

I tried this a while back and posted, with pretty much same response as you are getting. It might be a point of diminishing returns, but maybe it has merrit in that the strop grain effect is equalized on the razor.
One important thing I got out of it was relearning my timing. I use to get a little nick, always in the same spot and my slow hand taught my overconfident dominant hand why.
Since that time some months ago, I have abandoned the practice but I do feel it was a good learning experience for me, and no new nicks!!!!