Thread: Tinging Sound during stropping

Gents,
This is weird but I'm getting a "tinging" sound when stropping. Almost like if you flicked the blade with your fingernail. This only happens on the down stroke. I've listened to the sounds in the Wiki and can't really tell how mine compares. Any ideas if this is good or bad. Oh and it doeesn't happen all of the time.

I'm using a Filly strop if that makes any difference.
Thoughts?

When you are stropping make sure you are keeping your eye on the spine of the razor. This way you'll know if you're rolling the edge or not, the spine should always be flat on the strop and your focal point.

Some extra hollow razors sing when stropped, but to me this sounds like a lifting of the spine on some small level.

Originally Posted by volleykinginnc

Gents,
This is weird but I'm getting a "tinging" sound when stropping.

Is it happening at the end of your down stroke? Keep the spine against the strop throughout the turn to go back up and see if it doesn't stop tinging. (You are turning the razor on it's spine, right?)

Originally Posted by mbaglio100

Is it happening at the end of your down stroke? Keep the spine against the strop throughout the turn to go back up and see if it doesn't stop tinging. (You are turning the razor on it's spine, right?)

ha ha...yes I'm turning it on the spine. It happens only at the beginning and I've just noticed it...I've been stropping a whopping 2 months now so I can't exactly draw on my vast experience to understand if this is bad or not. Razor seems to cut exactly as before.

If the razor cuts the same as when you first used it I wouldn't worry so much. After two months of stropping incorrectly the blade would be dull.

Blades make all kinds of sounds when stropping. Everything from nothing at all to what people call singing. If your razor works as it should there is no damage going on. The fact the sound varies could be due to the way you hold the stop or the way you hold the razor.

I have two TI singing razors, and they do make sounds at times while preparing for shaving and even during shaving.