Thread: Stropping After Shaving

No experimenting for me and no stropping after I shave either. I guess I'll be in the minority but I don't strop after shaving because I don't want stuff coming off the razor and onto the strop. And I'm lazy. I have stropped on the linen side to clean off the blade though. Not saying I know whats right, just saying what I do (or in this case don't do). All my post shave activity is focused on cleaning the razor...and I only have one strop. I do wonder occasionally, you guys that do strop after a shave...does that aligned blade stay aligned indefinetly? The benefit of stropping after a shave though for me would be having the razor stropped incase I want to shave with it again quickly. Why I dunno, just sometimes I want to pick up a razor and I start to shave with it, like I missed a spot or to do the back of my neck and then I think...woops forgot to strop. I can't imagine it would really matter either way. And if thats the case than I'm guessing you guys do some extra stropping. Gosh talk about lazy huh? I think I"m getting old....

"question regarding the experiment - Are you saying that the blade being stropped after shaving should be re-stropped just prior to shaving or are you giving it a rest after stropping?"

I will be alternating just two razors and using just these two razors for the duration of the experiment so each razor will get a one day rest between use of course if people here think they should have more of a rest I can give each an extra day or two between use. One will only be stropped before shaving and the other before shaving and after shaving.