Thread: Hand(Palm) Stropping

Originally Posted by Lemur

Well you are putting it against your throat sometimes, aren't you?
Why would palm stropping be more dangerous than shaving?

the speed.

Originally Posted by Gammaray

This is an old school waste of time. There are much better ways to strop your blade than with your palm.

To me, it is not a waste of time, it is a good way, I would say wonderful and great, to strop a razor. I do that and I am very happy with the results I get. You say there are much better ways to strop your blade. Which ways, for example?

Originally Posted by Gammaray

Palm stropping will make you go blind. Just say no to palm stropping.

I palm strop and I used to palm strop even ten years ago and my sight is absolutely great. I will always say YES to palm stropping!

Originally Posted by Wayne1963

Where are these Livi videos to be found? I couldn't find any on YouTube.

Here you can find a video I made about Mastro Livi art:

At minute 1:05:10 Mastro Livi talks about hand palm stropping.

If you are looking for more Mastro Livi videos, you can take a look at my Youtube channel, where I created a play list with all the ones I found on YouTube: StraightRazorChannel - YouTube

Enjoy!

Originally Posted by razorguy

To me, it is not a waste of time, it is a good way, I would say wonderful and great, to strop a razor. I do that and I am very happy with the results I get. You say there are much better ways to strop your blade. Which ways, for example?



I palm strop and I used to palm strop even ten years ago and my sight is absolutely great. I will always say YES to palm stropping!

I think he was making a joke. Whatever works for you is fine! I'm sure the other way he talks about is on a Leather Barber's Strop. I palm strop after honing prior to checking the edge.

Happy Shaving!

I gave it a try, but could not get my razor quite as sharp as I get with canvas and leather. My pocket knife did feel a little sharper after palm stropping, though. Razor palm stropping is just not for me!

Originally Posted by zib

I think he was making a joke. Whatever works for you is fine! I'm sure the other way he talks about is on a Leather Barber's Strop. I palm strop after honing prior to checking the edge.

Happy Shaving!

Yes, sure! I too was jokingly teasing!
Everyone uses what it is best for him!

I find your edge is only as smooth as the last surface it was treated on. I find that the kanayama strops really get me edges very smooth and sharp, but the skin on your palm is even smoother and I find my razor is even keener when hand stropped.

I could ruin an edge in a heartbeat. I work in a fab shop and have metal splinters in both palms. Very few make it through t he calluses but when one does I spend about twenty minutes with tweezers pulling 10 or 15 of the little suckered out. I have stopped on my thigh though. Seems to smooth a leather stopped blade a little more.

When traveling I always Palm Strop and I have gotten as many as 16 shaves on one extended trip before the edge fell off the planet. When I go home and used my microscope I found that the real culprit was rust, micro oxidation on the bevel. Lately I have been using slightly boiled water, cooled just a bit and rinse my blades in that, wiping them down before putting them away. This has helped.

Alx

Originally Posted by BKratchmer

CAVEAT: If you began straight shaving recently enough that you remember what your cartridge razor felt like, or if your strop has a billion little ticks out of the ends, DO NOT TRY THIS.

too funny! While reading this thread I decided two things:
1. I have to watch these videos.
2. Before reading the red text I was thinking, 'With the edges of my strop looking like a zipper in certain places, there is NO WAY I'm going to try this technique...I know chicks dig scars, but not when you look like 'a cutter.'