Thread: Should the blade rest?

Only if it's tired.....

Seriously, I use the same razor every day with no decrease in shaving quality. I strop post shave as well.

Scott

Originally Posted by honedright

Only if it's tired.....

Seriously, I use the same razor every day with no decrease in shaving quality. I strop post shave as well.

Scott

Like I said, if a single shave doesn't deteriorate the sharpness (cause misalignment), then anything goes.

One of the things that puzzled me about Dovo's warning was that I had seen my barber many times use the same razor on different customers, with stropping all day, and I wondered how he could do that without running into the problem Dovo describes. The answer was that the problem arises only if your beard causes serious misalignment of the fin in one shave. As long as he kept stopping to prevent the razor from getting there, he avoided the issue.

Dovo doesn't say that anything drastic happens, just that stropping when the edge needs recovery causes some of the microteeth to break, leading to an early need to hone and wasting the metal of the razor.

Actually when I increased the stropping to 100x there was no difference between 60 and 100 and 60x was better than 30x so really the sweet point is between 30 and 60. it could be that 40 or so is the magic number.