Thread: What is your favorite stropping regiment?

40 laps on fabric/linen and 70 laps on leather.

I usually visit the bathroom as the last thing I do before going to bed. I will choose the razor for the morning shave and give it 50 laps.

The next morning I make my lather and give the razor 25 laps before I get-er-done.

50-70 laps on leather for me. My stainless seems to require the full seventy.

Once a month I touch-up with CrO pasted balsa then back to the leather.

Twice a year I touch up with Naniwa 12k, then CrO pasted balsa then back to leather only.

This works for me.

With this regular regime I rarely need to reset the bevel.

Giving it some thought, I rarely reset the bevel too. Most all my razors came to me second-hand and the bevels on most have been set; except, of course when I think it needs it. I was wandering off topic, anyway, one great thing about this site is all the "illumination" provided. I have tried things I learned here that I never would thought of doing. So it is with surprise that I suppose I have come full circle. Lately, I have been simply trying to avoid anything but the minimum maintenance on my razors. I have basically been just using linen & leather. Then when I feel a little pull, I do maybe 3 - 5 passes on the chrox. I have been ignoring the hones as long as possible just to see how long that can be. One thing for sure, it's not as long as some make it out to be. I recently had to hone (lightly mind you, a touch up) my new Hart after about six weeks of shaving almost every day (the exception were a couple days of using other razors for experiments discussed on this site). But it's scary sharp once again. So, we shall see how it goes.

20 laps on Belfast Linen, 40 laps on Medium Scotch Shell, 60 laps on Fine Scotch shell.

All on my beautifully restored Medal of Award Strop (Love it)!!!

OOOh NO..!!!..................................Not...The BeeJeeBeers.!....not that...........No, this can't be..........Oh.....

touch up:
10 laps chrox on balsa
5 laps .25 diamond spray felt
10 laps .125 cbn felt
40 laps latigo
40 laps TM steerhide

Everyday:
40 laps linen
50 laps steerhide

Before shaving: 40 on a cubic boron nitride painted strop followed by 15 on linen and 40 on plain leather. After shaving 20 on pasted strop again. Keeps the edge going for a very very long time and gives me the fresh from the hone feel every shave.

Kees...Greetings. I'm very interested and have a few questions if you don't mind and have a minute to answer them. First: what is a cubic boron nitride painted strop? And, why do you like it over other strops? And, again, what do you mean by "After shaving 20 on pasted strop again." If you could clarify it would be most appreciated. I mean, apparently, your method is everyone's goal here. And, I figure it this way, there might be something in your method maybe trying and worth learning. Thanks.

Originally Posted by cflaageriv

Kees...Greetings. I'm very interested and have a few questions if you don't mind and have a minute to answer them. First: what is a cubic boron nitride painted strop? And, why do you like it over other strops? And, again, what do you mean by "After shaving 20 on pasted strop again." If you could clarify it would be most appreciated. I mean, apparently, your method is everyone's goal here. And, I figure it this way, there might be something in your method maybe trying and worth learning. Thanks.

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To cflaageriv,

Kees is from Netherlands and may not be familiar with English puncuation. That is why you are not grasping his message. His post should read like this:

After each number should be the word "laps". And a comma after the word shaving.

Before shaving: 40 laps on a cubic boron nitride painted strop followed by 15 laps on linen and 40 laps on plain leather. After shaving, 20 laps on pasted strop again. Keeps the edge going for a very very long time and gives me the fresh from the hone feel every shave.


I hope this clears up your confusion.

JERRY