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01-27-2011, 07:30 AM #1Member
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Thank you so much for the great video! I now understand what I have been doing wrong. I have been using my wrist instead of my fingers. I am glad I bought an inexpensive strop at first. It has several nicks and cuts.
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01-27-2011, 01:23 PM #2Senior Member
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Nice form you have there!
I made a video about strops and stropping in general, I hope its ok if a place it here.
YouTube - Straight razor stropping
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02-20-2011, 11:39 AM
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That was a rather charming and informative video. You answered a lot of questions I didn't even know I had. (I found the "friction-warming" bit of info particularly useful.) Thank you for sharing.
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03-28-2011, 11:54 PM
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Your videos on stropping are excellent. Very detailed. Love your brushes. Will be looking at your other videos. Thanks so much.
03-29-2011, 01:16 AM
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Nice video AFDavis11. I realize what I was doing wrong. I was keeping my wrist still, I was using my fingers to rotate and I was using light pressure and never letting the razor stop.
I was not wearing a tie!
Thank you for the great info!!!
03-29-2011, 01:39 AM
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Just remember to only strop on the back side of a tie.
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01-29-2012, 01:42 PM
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Alan:
Video was great and very informative. I look forward to future productions.
04-22-2012, 12:18 AM
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Just got my strop today! Quick question Alan. When you're stropping, is the whole face of the razor running against the strop or is just the edge of the blade? I'm assuming just the edge but in the video it seemed like the whole face of the blade was flat against the strop.
04-22-2012, 12:34 AM
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Keep both the spine and the edge on the strop surface. The hollowness of the blade means it will only really touch the leather at two points - edge and spine. Unless you have a true, true wedge (which I have never seen), this will always be true.
Concentrate on keeping the spine on the strop always, and let the edge naturally follow that.
James.
04-22-2012, 12:38 AM
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Ahh I see. Still a beginner at all of this, thanks James!
