Thread: Stropping the day before a shave

Hi folks,

I was wondering if you could strop a razor the evening before the morning you were going to shave with it. I get up pretty early for work (5:00 a.m.) and if I can strop my razor before I go to bed the night before, it would cut my shaving time dramatically.

And I have no problems in the morning. In fact, usually, every Sunday I strop all my razors that I've used for the week. That way I'm done stropping except for the between passes strop.

Jeff

I strop the night before. This saves me time in the morning and gives me an excuse to play with my razors in the evening.

regards &c
LG

I do both. I try to strop with linen then leather right before I shave. There are days that the stropping noises are too loud so I have to do some stropping at night and a leather only stropping right before the shave ( the leather stropping is at a different pitch that doesn't seem to penatrate back to the bedroom). For some reason the wife is woken up by the linen stropping, but not by the Homer Simpson noises of "MMMMMMMMMM, Aftershave".
-Fred

I usually strop the night before, or lile Jeff catch them all on Sunday.

There was a thread like this about a week ago. One thing that came up was if you lather your face, then strop, then re-lather before shaving it gives the lather a chance to moisten the whiskers further. If you have one of those really coarse beards, this would definitely be something worth experimenting with.

I often do the lather then strop method to ensure enough time for the lather to do it's thing.

The linen does have a unique sound that seems to carry through the house a bit. The linen I use on my strops has a ridged pattern to the weave and can send out quite a tune <g>.

Tony

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

I often do the lather then strop method to ensure enough time for the lather to do it's thing.

The linen does have a unique sound that seems to carry through the house a bit. The linen I use on my strops has a ridged pattern to the weave and can send out quite a tune <g>.

Tony

Your's is the strop I use. I love the feel of the linen side so I use it, just not in the morning. I will have to try doing the lather up thing before stropping.
-Fred

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

I often do the lather then strop method to ensure enough time for the lather to do it's thing.

The linen does have a unique sound that seems to carry through the house a bit. The linen I use on my strops has a ridged pattern to the weave and can send out quite a tune <g>.

Tony

Tony, is the linen on your strops real linen (like from the linen plant) or it is cotton or something else?

Nenad

Nenad,
It is actually a cotton material as is most barbers "linen" now days. Back in the day they used a variety of fibers including silk for strops. I think the main thing is that it is a fiber product more than WHICH fiber product.

Tony

oh, OK... I was asking cause the DOVO strop started to turn brownish color on once white (I guess from the paste) linen side...

Nenad