Thread: Linen Replacement?

Thanx Mark,

I'll toss it in my bag of tricks, particularly for travel shaving.

Years ago Josh Earl and I compared notes and for both of us stropping the razor on a towel to remove lather was a major edge-killer for us; we had independently done this to reduce the risk of dinging the edge and had eventually gone back to basin swishing with major improvements in the edge retention. This was before I was into stropping so we're talking 6 days vs 10 or so. Not sure why stropping on a towel held in the hand would be different from a towel laying on the counter

Interesting. Let me ask an inverse question. Why would stropping on a towel be different than stropping on linen?

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

Interesting. Let me ask an inverse question. Why would stropping on a towel be different than stropping on linen?

Softer material, lots of "sag" in the pile. Cotton produces a sharper edge than linen IMO but it's also slower thus requiring more laps, though the "sag" from the pile of the towel will speed it up the same way sag speeds up a linen strop.