Thread: Why Strop On Fabric Before Leather?

There are different theories. I believe that the linen does remove a significant amount of metal and therefore acts like a very mild hone. My canvas strop gets grey over time and gets cleaned occasionally. I don't strop on canvas every time, only when my razor loses some of it's ability to instantly grab ands cut my whiskers. That happens about every two or three weeks; I usually shave six days a week. I don't have a moustache or beard. I have never honed my razor on a stone in the almost two and a half years since I bought it new and cracked the Dovo factory seal on it's box.The barbers I went to in the 1960s through 1980s had a linen and leather strop hanging from each of their chairs.