Thread: Dr Matt's touch-up strop

I received a Dr Matt maintenance strop for Christmas.
It is a very light poly material with a diamond spray called bnc, or something like that in 0.5 micron.
I watched his video and feel that I duplicated his actions, but, the result was very poor.
It was used on three perfectly shave ready blades and both turned out duller for the effort. I had to go back to 12k to reclaim an edge.
I may be doing something wrong.
Has anyone else used this product?

New to me...could you post a web link?

If I'm not mistaken he uses CBN. I have some CBN strops on tyvek sort of material from Euclid440 and have had great results from them. Obviously you have to have a good edge before you take it to the CBN but I've never had it go backwards (I've had it do nothing when my edge wasn't set properly).
CBN, Diamond, CrOx, all in the same family of post hone finishing. Bummer that your strop is not working as intended.
What does the strop look like? How many laps are you doing? I only do like 10.

Yea, you used too much pressure.

It is a pasted strop, very thin and will flex, if you apply too much downward pressure with any abrasive strop you will roll the edge.

It is coated with CBN Cubic Boron Nitrate, second in hardness to Diamond and very abrasive.

Used with weight of the blade is capable of polishing an 8 or 12K edge and provide a bit more keenness and more smoothness/comfort, a very nice shaving edge.

Use weight of the blade when stropping and make sure you are misting with Distilled water, most tap water contain minerals larger than the CBN and you will contaminate the strop.

Keep the strop as dust free as possible; Dust is also larger than the CBN.

Depending on the grit size of CBN and your skin and beard type, you can shave off the CBN strop, no leather.

Try sending him an email. He usually answers within 24hrs.

He has no website, just email and utubes. On utube, type in drmatt357 for a look at his deal.
I will shoot him an email for ideas.
As for pressure, I'm sure I have rolled the edge.
What is surprising in Dr Matt's videos is that his strop has a lot of slack and a bend at the razor contact point when demonstrating.
I was just looking for any others who have tried this strop rig.

Slack has nothing to do with pressure. It is all about the position of the strop below the blade from the spine to the edge… it should be flat, other wise…

dAn edge is very fragile and a little downward pressure will roll the edge. Keep the strop taught and use very lite, “weight of the blade” pressure.

Depending on how bad you rolled it, CBN can revive it in the .50um grits it may take up to 50 laps.

Rolling edges with a pasted strops is very common, even with paddle strops, too much pressure.

Originally Posted by Neckbone

I received a Dr Matt maintenance strop for Christmas.
It is a very light poly material with a diamond spray called bnc, or something like that in 0.5 micron.
I watched his video and feel that I duplicated his actions, but, the result was very poor.
It was used on three perfectly shave ready blades and both turned out duller for the effort. I had to go back to 12k to reclaim an edge.
I may be doing something wrong.
Has anyone else used this product?

Yes, but if you use it as often as he suggests you'll dull the blade.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaCajun

Yes, but if you use it as often as he suggests you'll dull the blade.

I always wondered what kind of doctor is he, a strop doctor, a hone doctor, a razor doctor?

Originally Posted by mainaman

I always wondered what kind of doctor is he, a strop doctor, a hone doctor, a razor doctor?

I believe he is a Chiropractic Doctor