Thread: Non traditional strop question

Newspaper actually works well in a pinch. Try to use a sheet that has lots of ink on it, like a dark picture.

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

Darwin's Origin of Species perhaps ?

Tony

I love it

Originally Posted by Utopian

I know it's just a book, but I'm pretty sure I would quit shaving before I used a Bible as a strop. I guess it could have been worse, you could have opened it and spread some Chromium Oxide on a couple of pages!
I'm glad you got your real strop back.

Never used a bible as a strop but I used to roll my own cigarettes and when I would run out of paper the unprinted pages in the front and back were just the right thickness for cigarette paper...I know. I'm going to hell.

Originally Posted by JMS

Never used a bible as a strop but I used to roll my own cigarettes and when I would run out of paper the unprinted pages in the front and back were just the right thickness for cigarette paper...I know. I'm going to hell.

Holy smokes!

Interestingly, printer's ink nowadays is made from a rubberlike polymer. Perhaps this is responsible for the 'draw', and the carbon or metal pigments for abrasion.