Thread: Must the strop be perfectly flat?

When you are talking about applying lather to your strop, do you mean just making normal lather with shave soap and water and then applying it with a brush?

Originally Posted by amt

When you are talking about applying lather to your strop, do you mean just making normal lather with shave soap and water and then applying it with a brush?

Yup. Just mix up your lather as you would for your face, but then apply it to the strop. You want to make sure to get an even coating, so that it all dries in the same amount of time.

Try "stropping" with the bottle on the back side of the
leather.

If it's cupped, then the bottle might work out the "high
center" on the back side.

Good luck.