Thread: Sagging strop remedy

+1 Mack! Everyone's method of learning is different. I see that all the time as an instructor and you've seen it on the mat. I guess my attitude is what does it matter how you go about learning, as long as you learn.

Pelkey

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

you can't learn how to use a manual tranny by driving with an auto and shifting through the gears.

Maybe so, but for most the main objective is to learn drive the car.

If a strop is sagging also consider that one may be putting too much pressure on it with the razor. Placing a piece of wood under the strop it will not relieve that pressure tho it may help if the problem stems instead from a "floppy" anchor hand.

If your anchor hand is moving & creating the sag, try locking your elbow to your hip.
It is then not necessary to "pull" hard on the strop creating stress, tension & an equally heavy opposite hand.

"The weight of the razor" will not sag a strop even if held very lightly.

I have a fulcrum of sorts set up in my shavatorium so I can drape the loose end over it and then attach a concrete block to that end for tensioning the bothersome deflection prone part of the stropbetween the two ends. I have no idea how barbers, for generations, were able to deal with a floppy strop, but I'm working on a solution. I'm up to a 12" block now, but think I may have to graduate from concrete blocks to something like an engine block to get rid of that last little bit of droop.

Wish me luck,



hmmm... I wonder if I should be looking into hydraulics???

Hey Bruce here's a couple ideas;
A hydraulic stretching machine, something no well equiped bath should be without. Or move your rack up out of the basement. Everyone's got one... don't they?

Pelkey

Bob,

Procrustes' bed has to stay in the cellar for personal reasons, but that hydraulic stretcher definitely has caught my eye. I'd have to knock out a wall in the shavatoriumto make the fit, although, the machine looks like it may be able to make its own space.

I appreciate the recommendations,

Can you count to 10 before this guy is banned?

Who me? What is it this time?

No! No!

There was a post, completely off topic, totally spam. Advertising some sort of service for pay. I reported the post. The administrators must have erased the it.

So my comment looks kind of odd sitting there now I guess.

Pelkey

I'm greatly relieved; my face is enormously thankful for the clarification as I'll be able to shave tomorrow without spasms of anxiety.