Thread: Palm stropping

Guess what… One or two months ago, I nicked my "strop". Well, it was a clean cut, needed about a week to heal.
But alltogether, I think it´s like shaving itself. Be careful and focussed, and nobody gets hurt. I wasn´t focussed, so I cut myself.
But you can keep a razor sharp for quite a while. I haven´t shaved myself with this razor for a while and I felt my experience grow, so I´d have to make a test shave to say a bit more. I´ve read, that someone else tried to palm strop a razor, but it didn´t last long. I don´t know if i do something different.

Another tip:
When you want to strop a razor with your palm, don´t try to cover the whole blade with each stropping. Strop in parts: Start with the tip, then go to the middle, then near the tang and back. This provides a less diagonal stropping movement (well, since English isn´t my native language, I´m not sure whether I explained it right. If you don´t understand what I mean, let me know and I´ll try to find another way to make it clear. Well, you can see what I mean in this one video of Mastro Livi, which I´m not able to find right now. But you shouldn´t flip the blade over the edge, like he does…).

Regards,
tok