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12-19-2015, 09:14 PM #1
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Thanked: 4Thank you for some helpful and very quick replies!
Since you have not discouraged me completely I will probably try shaving once or twice without stropping, and then possibly clean my belt thoroughly and give it a go.
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12-19-2015, 09:19 PM #2
Palm stropping very effective, plus what was said newspaper will do fine also. Tc
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12-19-2015, 09:22 PM #3
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Thanked: 55Shave the inside of your forearm and strop on that, or palm strop.
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12-19-2015, 09:39 PM #4
Just be sure the belt has no fancy parts like rivets or fancy stitching. it should be a plain truly leather belt. Most belts sold these days are not real leather. They are either some synthetic material or manufactured scraps of leather processed into something like leather but yet they can still call it leather.
if you use your body parts just be sure you are real competent with stropping. One false move with a strop means a nicked strop, with your arm..well....No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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12-19-2015, 10:19 PM #5
Denim makes a fine strop, like the leg of an old pair of jeans glued to a piece of wood.
"If You Knew Half of What I Forgot You Would Be An Idiot" - by DoughBoy68
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12-19-2015, 11:21 PM #6
If your parents have leather furniture, use that,,
Strop on the back of the sofa or chair,, then they won't notice it right away.
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12-20-2015, 12:11 AM #7
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Thanked: 4822I have been there and done that. As long as it really is leather, I doubt the source matters that much, and as long as it is clean and straight. Older belts tend to be a little bent up and would not be my first choice.
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12-19-2015, 09:21 PM #8
Flashback from 40+ years or so.
I remember my grandfather used only his work belt and always was still clean shaved.
They were times when separate strop might have seen as an useless expensive luxury.'That is what i do. I drink and i know things'
-Tyrion Lannister.