Do you prefer hanging or paddle strops?

Hanging here also, but just slightly. I have a very soft hanging strop and love it. Tony made me a paddle strop and it is very, very wide. So I have a paddle that is wide and a hanging that is thin. With Tony's wide paddle strop stropping is like a sensual event, it feels so smooth. I prefer the hanging though for reasons I'm not sure about. I think its because with the hanging strop I get on with business quicker. Or I just prefer the experience of using a hanging strop. For me shaving with a straight is about enjoying the experience and both strops fight for the best position. I'd probably get a better shave though if I stuck with that paddle, its got enormous grip on the blade and creates great draw.

Hanging is bad :nono: , I like mine nice and firm. :D

kidding, I like hanging strops better, since I haven't tryed paddle yet...

N

Hanging for me, but I'll use the paddle for pastes or on the road. The hanging strop is just that much more copmfortable for me to use.

X

I have one of Tony's hanging strops, one of his four-sided, and a DOVO paddle strop (my first strop).

Coming from the paddle to the hanging, I like the hanging a lot better. I think it's much faster and easier than the paddle, which was narrower and required many more strokes. I admit it, I get bored standing there with my razor going back and forth on the paddle strop a gazillion times. (Okay, well, 40 times, if I don't lose count).

The box strop is just for various pastes. Which is fine, because that's what I bought it for.

Wow,
Thanks guys, you made my day.

I prefer the hanging strop for every day stropping myself but always suggest the paddle for my first time buyers. I figure a guy buying a starter set is trying to get started on a reasonable budget. He needs a regulat leather surface for stropping but in just a few weeks he may need real sharpening for his razor or just a touch up. I don't want him to have to go buy more equipment just a short time in. The paddle strop gives him everything he needs right out of the gate, even more so if he buys it pre-pasted. He can strop before each shave AND he can touch up his razor with his inital investment. The harder paddle makes stropping more foolproof as well and he has a tool he can keep and use no matter what he chooses in the future.

For my own use the hanging strop is the daily winner with a paddle for touch ups along with the Belgian yellow Coticule. I do have a Norton for bigger jobs and a dozen or so barber hones.

Tony

i opt for the hanging stropp. It is traditional, effecient, does the job well and is hanging there waiting for me.