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10-16-2012, 08:09 PM #1Senior 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 #2'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 #3Senior 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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