Thread: My stropping technique.

Take a look at the 1961 barber manual excerpt from the SRP Wiki here. The last couple of pages are concerned with stropping. Personally I prefer my strop waist high. This is equivalent to where the hook is on a Koken barber chair and what most pro barbers used as far as setting it up. I use a zip tie on a door knob.

The tang should be held between thumb and forefinger to allow the tactile feel to put light pressure on the edge and the wrist shoudn't turn. This is out of the manual.

Practicing flipping the razor on the strop until it becomes automatic without moving the arm is also recommended. I wish I had read all of this before I "learned" to strop.

I had a lot of bad habits to break but I succeeded in learning the correct technique. This assumes that the manual is correct and I think it is. IMO I would lose the body english.