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10-16-2012, 08:09 PM #21Senior Member
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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.
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10-16-2012, 08:41 PM #22'tis but a scratch!
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...like the other half of the strop.
Originally Posted by IamSt8ght
"These aren't the droids you're looking for." "These aren't the droids we're looking for." "He can go about his business." "You can go about your business."
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10-17-2012, 02:10 AM #23Senior Member
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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)."
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10-17-2012, 05:02 AM #24Senior Member
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That facial expression is familiar... Originally Posted by hoglahoo
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10-17-2012, 02:51 PM #25
That's Christopher Lloyd's face when he sees serious $#!% Originally Posted by honedright
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12-08-2012, 11:28 PM #26Does the barber shave himself...?
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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!
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.
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12-09-2012, 02:38 AM #27Senior Member
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That may not be the razor's fault..... Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
I am capable of very fast stropping though I normally use a moderate pace. I've stropped very fast 50 round trips and laid the full hollow against my cheek and I could not detect any temperature change .
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12-09-2012, 04:11 AM #28Senior Member
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Bored tonight huh ? Originally Posted by honedright
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12-09-2012, 04:52 AM #29Senior Member
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Not any more than last night. Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
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12-09-2012, 04:59 AM #30Senior Member
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Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, I know the feeling. Originally Posted by honedright
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