Thread: Stropping Before Honing after Shaving

Say that you have your razor all sharp and stropped and ready to
shave, you thought. You start to shave and discover that it is
pulling a bit to much. You strop it again and it still pulls. You
then think to yourself that a little honing could fix this up. You
finish the shave and then wonder to your self now that the fin is all
out of alignment from shaving should I strop and realign the fin
before honing or should I just hone the misaligned fin. And then
again maybe the honing would just resurface the edge and that
stropping before honing would just be a waste of time, what is your
opinion? One might think that stropping before honing might be easier
on the edge/fin. Then again the fin is such a finite piece of metal
that it may not make a bit of difference.

Hi,

from my experience I would say just go to the hone and thats it. Even if you would realign the fin with a strop-before-hone this exact fin would be rebuilt anyway, so why bother :-)

Just my 2 cents,
-Axel-

I agree exactly.
Why realign a fin you are only going to destroy as you recreate the shaving edge.
Wasted effort.

X

Life is hard enough... Just hone away..

I thought of the same thing... But, my final conclusion is that is better to strop before honing, as to realign the fin, and preserve as much as you can of it... go figure, different strokes for diferent folks...

Nenad

To me that would be like going out to wax your car with some high dollar finishing wax and then an hour later going at it with rubbing compound.

If you strop before honing the hone will undo whatever you did before. Like honing on a 12,000 and then going back to an 8,000.

To the hone, to the hone, to the hone hone hone. No need to strop as you will be cutting away the edge in the honing process and creating brand new striations and such.......lol. Have fun. Lynn