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    Default Sometimes you stumble onto an easier way to do things.

    By the way, congratulate me for my first trip with the straight razor and strop! I was about to grab the Merkur Slant DE but then ordered myself not to wimp out.

    Anyway, at home, my strop is hung waist high because I thought that was the way to do it. In other words, I have always stropped perpendicular to the floor.

    By necessity the only way I could hook the strop up in the motel rooms were by the hangers, which means I had to strop at a 45-degree angle upward. (I'm waiting for someone to tell me that this is the way I should have been doing it all along.)

    The motel setup, that is stropping at a 45-degree angle upward was EASIER! I've been getting easy, enjoyable shaves on the road.

    Straight razor shaver and loving it!
    40-year survivor of electric and multiblade razors

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    Whatever gets you to your destination is all that matters. Cool. Congrats.
    So tell us did you pilfer all the hangers in the motel room along with the soaps & shampoos???

    Har!!!!!

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    Yes a slight angle either up or down usually helps.... IIRC it is in the Stroptober thread and I know quite a few other mentions in this forum and around SRP


    http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...er-2010-a.html

    45° is a little steep for my taste but if it is working use it
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    Luckily, for me, I've had to play with the angle of my stropping out of necessity as well... we're in the midst of a bathroom remodel, so I've delayed hanging the hook to attach my strop. In the meantime, I've used the door knob, door hinge, toilet paper holder and cabinet knob... each offering a different angle. I've still yet to find the perfect one, but close enough. I guess it's true that necessity is the mother of all invention...

    Oh, and I know it's OT, Glen, but seeing your link above made me realize that there is no "Beginner's Tip" for May yet... Just sayin'. (sayin' thanks, though, really)
    "Willpower and Dedication are good words," Roland remarked, "There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is Obsession." -Roland Deschain of Gilead

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    This is why I love a paddle. I can stand, sit, angle up, angle down, move outside, change in a heartbeat. I have 3 hangers and that is about all they do. I should give them an opportunity to change my mind.
    Congrats on the straight trip and you should send the DE a post card at least.
    Good judgment comes from experience, and experience....well that comes from poor judgment.

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