Thread: Any Info On This: "The Griffon Strop Aide" ??? See Pictures:

With all this positive feedback on the resulting edge, I believe that a properly leaded strop is a winner!!

Good going, Andrew. I will pick up on mine soon and give it another go. I have been too busy at work/home to do much razoring lately. I have been waiting to see the fabric turn white for a few days. Has not yet?
At any rate, I have found a big Sheffield in my rotation which will be a good candidate for it. I will load the strop some more and commence next week.

Originally Posted by Phrank

The edge is coming closer to matching the shave with the razors you've restored for me - one of the first things I noticed - that mellow smooth, very clean, crisp edge that always provides a great shave.

It only gets better my friend. You're beginning to 'get' why for the last 2+ years, every blade I shave with, and every blade I hone get's stropped with my leaded strops. Just wait until you go through your whole rotation of razors a few times!

What I really need to do (BUT probably never will!) is just shave with one razor to see how long this method prolongs the edge before necessitating having to refresh the edge on the hones. Those 'old guys' back in the day really knew what was up....

I might add that for the last couple of months I've been loading a old linen strop with the bank sinker every day watching it turn grey and then white by the next morning, then giving the day's razor a good 20 before and after. I must say that the edges have remained highly keen and very finely polished. I'm going to keep it up as well!!

Originally Posted by furious

I might add that for the last couple of months I've been loading a old linen strop with the bank sinker every day watching it turn grey and then white by the next morning, then giving the day's razor a good 20 before and after. I must say that the edges have remained highly keen and very finely polished. I'm going to keep it up as well!!

... "There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively."

Jonathan Ive

Any problems with heavy metal poisoning? I have a kid in the house and will probably forego any fine particle lead in the common areas of the house, chances are he would lick the strop, darn kids

Originally Posted by jfk742

Any problems with heavy metal poisoning? I have a kid in the house and will probably forego any fine particle lead in the common areas of the house, chances are he would lick the strop, darn kids

... Darn Kids indeed!

Seriously though...I'm not concerned about heavy metal poisoning. I wipe the blade well after I strop, and I always wash my hands well so I just don't feel it's a problem for me. I just can't see it being an issue. After all the other supposedly toxic substances that I've been exposed to in my almost 70 years on this planet, I really don't think it's gonna be my strops that does me in!

Everyone needs to make up there own mind however based on their own best judgement.



***** At the risk of redundancy, as a way of being cautious: proper care should be taken when handling lead for those overly concerned about it's use for anything razor related.

After another lead load onto the strop - I propose to give this razor maybe 20 on the linen and 40 on the leather. Would that be a good maintenance amount of laps before I go to the non-treated strop?

This is one of my 8/8+ W&B Celebrated, FBU's...next up:

Originally Posted by Phrank

After another lead load onto the strop - I propose to give this razor maybe 20 on the linen and 40 on the leather. Would that be a good maintenance amount of laps before I go to the non-treated strop?

This is one of my 8/8+ W&B Celebrated, FBU's...next up:

That's just about what I'm doing, Phrank! And it really seems to be doing the trick.

Unlike crox, it seems to me that you can't over do it with the lead.