Thread: New strop, new to stropping

This advice may be all too obvious, but: Inspect the strop after using it, each time. If you start to see little "hatch marks" along the edges at either end of the strop (where you start your laps), then you are holding the razor wrongly. You should be able to strop without cutting little lines into the strop at all.

I say this because my own strop bears such marks as a reminder to me of my first several attempts at stropping!

Thanks! I'll keep keep an eye out for those marks.. (I wouldn't have thought of it)