Thread: Help... I think I stropped my razor dull!

Originally Posted by earcutter

Dang James - that's really cool!! Crazy cool actually. Please tell me you got video! If not, maybe you should re-create the experiment and post it on the Wiki as I ended up kind of selling myself on the speed thing lol... sigh. If I can help at all - let me know - and thanks for the input.

david

Sorry David, but we never got around to doing a video. The stropping speed experiment thread is somewhere in the stropping section I guess, if you ever want to check it out.

You might not be wrong about the speed - the whole reason we did the experiment in the first place was that I was the same - I thought the frictional heat on the very thin edge may in fact help align it better or make it more malleable when stropping, and therefore that speed would help in this. But based on what we did (and again let me stress it was not highly rigorous although it was pretty well controlled for what we were doing) it seems that if there is indeed an effect of speed it is undetectable to the naked face!

James.