Thread: stropping for newbies

Dear Newbies

my past experiences I ruined the edge on a new razor had to resend it to get it honed found out an easier and much more efficient way of stropping.

cut a strip of cardboard box place it on the edge of a table and practice stropping on it with correct technique and finish it with a newspaper again place it on the edge of the table to finish the stropping .

what i found is this maintains the sharpness on the edge.

the other alternative is use the leather strop and place flat on the edge of the table to practice stropping technique.

I have nicked my leather strop many times hanging it in the bathroom

hope is helps

now I am very very happy with the sharpness of the balde.

remember to sit on a chair and strop the razor along the edge of the table with 1st the card board box flat on the edge of the table and follow by same technique but with newspaper .