I don't know if anyone has noticed this or tried it themselves but, I damaged my pinky in my right hand and the doc says to tape it to my ring finger next to it to stop it moving and help it heal.

But I still have to shave... so I'm stropping with my 3rd and 4th fingers taped and found it quite difficult to apply pressure to my stropping stroke which I actually found to give me a very light touch when stropping while still being able to hold the razor firm. It seems to stop the wrist applying pressure - which I found to be a big problem when starting to strop - as opposed to the shoulder controlling the stropping motion.

Basically, tape your fingers with an inch wide piece of tape (width of standard selotape) so that the tape covers the area after the knuckle on your pinky - I'm reading this over and it seems a bit anal but I'm thinking if it was at the base of the finger, it would affect how restricted the pinky finger is.

If you could try it out and post your findings it would be much appreciated.

Happy Stropping!

Regards
Alex