Speed stropping is useful when you need a night light. The glow of the hot blade helps me find stuff in the dark.
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Speed stropping is useful when you need a night light. The glow of the hot blade helps me find stuff in the dark.
Well...I can sure smoke things up on a belt grinder but it pretty much erases the temper and I don't think a straight razor would survive except as a toothpick, and a soft one at that. As far as the wheel strop, I didn't know you were talking about a Tormek. I have one of those and it never occured to me to try it on a razor, probably because none of the sages on SRP said it was OK. It is a good way to put a nice, exact bevel angle on a knife where you want precision. It depends on an arm that clamps the blade over the grinding wheel and you use that to determine the bevel angle. I don't see how that would work on a straight razor with its "built in bevel determination system (the spine)."
If this were true, & you really heated the edge enough to soften it, you would ruin the steel's temper & it wouldn't shave anything anymore. In the words of Adam & Jamie: BUSTED!:chop:
Where I suspect this got started is, if you warm the strop a bit (whether by fast stropping or palm rubbing) you increase its draw & pliability & make it more likely to contact the entire edge of the razor & do its useful work realigning everything.