Thread: StropTober: Beginning Oct 1st 2012

Your strops don't need it, its new leather. If you Really want to, put a few drops in your palm rub your strop down. I used to use the stuff on horse tack, bridles, saddles etc. A little goes a long way.

Gents a favor please as this gets longer and longer when you hit the "reply with quote" can you guys take out the Attachments so that the pics and Vids don't keep repeating over and over much the same as we do in the SOTD so we don't overload the thread


Many thanks guys

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Well this little exercise was interesting. Watching myself strop from a few different angles revealed some interesting insight...

Count me in if it not to late. After reading all 53 pages of the JaNorton I am sure there will be lots of useful info here as well. I cannot do video but I have ordered the CrOx and paddle strop to my first pasted stopping. It should be here in a week or so. I am a noob so if you don't want the inexperienced just let me know and I will sit back and watch.

I have a question..They say not to apply any pressure....but in this video it looks like he is adding some pressure and making the razor dip down in the strop.
Let it be known I am a noobie...but I always see conflicting claims.

Wow this is great. Great for a newb like me to watch.

Here's my vid. Sorry about the quality, I had to turn the resolution down a lot to get a reasonable frame rate.

Looking at it, I'm moving my wrist more than I thought I was. Something to work on.

Count me in

Okay here's my first official video for Stroptober.

Strop: Kangaroo
Fabric: Webbing makes a real zippy sound

The angle of the camera is such that it looks like I'm getting real close to the top attachments, but I'm really a few inches away from it so no worries about banging that bit. Since I've only been stropping for a month now critiques are more than welcome.

Special Chat tonight to kick off Stroptoberfest!!!!

Bring all your questions and comments.

Have fun