Thread: Had a light bulb moment over the past week or so.

It really goes to show that stropping does have a serious affect on the smoothness of the blade. Have you read AFDavis' new thread concerning understropped, correctly stropped and overstropped razors?

Are you doing the 150 strokes on leather or linen? Stropping on plain leather past a certain point usually has no further affect, probably around 60 strokes or so. Linen is more abrasive and doing a lot of strokes will have a mild honing effect.

In any case leather stropping will make an edge more comfortable as opposed to making a balking razor work better. Maybe a few strokes on a high grit hone is what you needed.

Just my Illinois leather

I have been honing mine to 8k on the norton and then stropping. I have a phig and a translucent arkansas and an ultra fine spyderco ceramic I use diamond spray on but I have not seen any real advantage from any of these past he 8k norton.

All I know is that after a lot more stropping they actually shave without pulling and last through a complete shave (at least these two do).

Remeber what I said at the meet in KC, "ya gotta strop the "bejeezus" out of it" after a honing! LOL

For me, after honing it's a minimum of 100 laps. I generally don't stop short of 100 laps even if it's just between shaves. Maybe it's a waste of time, but I have the time to waste, and I like stropping.

One thing that I have learned for sure about SR shaving is this. There are so many variables and so many different ways to skin a cat in this game that I don't know if anyone will ever really nail it all down.

Its probably not my only issue but stropping has been one of my issues. This evening added a SilverKing USA to my rotation out of my dud pile but taking a little more time on the strop. I just finished shaving with it and it did pretty well.

Last few times I tried that particular razor it was quite uncomfortable to shave with.

Ray

Originally Posted by Maxi

It really goes to show that stropping does have a serious affect on the smoothness of the blade. Have you read AFDavis' new thread concerning understropped, correctly stropped and overstropped razors?

Do you have a link to this thread i can't seem to find it in the search...

thanks!

The link, as requested, good Sir.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...rstropped.html