Thread: My stropping experiment

Originally Posted by slickshave

Isn't graphite a lubricant? I'm using lampblack on newspaper (wrapped on a glass sheet). My regular strop is newspaper without the lampblack; giving me good results (and all I can afford for now).

That is what I think also. I have used the strop once and it has no draw. Hardly any resistance. No friction in my mind equals no heat so it would even take that possibility out of the question. It is very soft so I have a hard time believing it does much of anything. That being said I used it last night for the first time. I used to many variables to determine anything but the shave was fine so it didn't hurt anything.

Each of these strops cost me about as much as 4 Sunday papers so cost isn't much of an issue.

Tim