Thread: Does anybody

Exactly right, when I upgraded strops I made myself lose the Barber of Seville style I had. My first strop looks like a pit bull's chew toy.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I have the same issue on my hanging strop. Not so much on my bench strop, though.
I have learned that if I don't stop and reposition, things get wonky and a strop cut is possibly next!

I call my first strop, the Exotic Leopard strop because of all the nicks I had to sand out.
With Pixel's loom, I take my time,,not a nick yet,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

I call my first strop, the Exotic Leopard strop because of all the nicks I had to sand out.
With Pixel's loom, I take my time,,not a nick yet,,,

You nick that loom.you will die a thousand deaths

I think is because of the variables between the hanging, bench, and loom strops we try to intermingle. All have advantages and benefits, yet each must be approached differently.
It seems best to find one and stick with it! (except for those "special" blades!)
It seems good to be an expert of a particular strop. One thing is certain. One has not a need to strop fast. Slow, shure, and accurate is the way to strop. Fast OR Slow!

So WW243, Hirlau has now joined Sharptonn and Darl (Mercilessly Ridiculed thread) in hastening your departure to B&B!

You must have done something powerfully wrong, if not in this life then in another...

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

You nick that loom.you will die a thousand deaths

Wow...that is one harsh strop!

Use the tacky stuff that bank tellers use for their fingertips. Or put a piece of electrical tape on the shank on either side. Me, I roll the razor in my fingers when I flip it, so it repositions twice each lap anyhow.

I was the foreman who hired them as 10 year olds in the Joseph Rogers factory some lifetimes back. The 3 of them required frequent flogging. What they really hated was the witholding of their ration of rum....no it wasn't just the Royal Navy.....

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

So WW243, Hirlau has now joined Sharptonn and Darl (Mercilessly Ridiculed thread) in hastening your departure to B&B!

You must have done something powerfully wrong, if not in this life then in another...

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

So WW243, Hirlau has now joined Sharptonn and Darl (Mercilessly Ridiculed thread) in hastening your departure to B&B!

You must have done something powerfully wrong, if not in this life then in another...

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by WW243

I was the foreman who hired them as 10 year olds in the Joseph Rogers factory some lifetimes back. The 3 of them required frequent flogging. What they really hated was the witholding of their ration of rum....no it wasn't just the Royal Navy.....

Geeez you make us sound pathological or something.
And Mr. Miller your what us three aspire to be.

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Geeez you make us sound pathological or something.
And Mr. Miller your what us three aspire to be.

What, inebriated? (Well, the sun is over the yardarm in these latitudes, matey, aarhh!)