How about a trip to the local shoe repair shop ? I have seen a slow turning leather wheel/strop that my local shoe cobbler uses to buff leather!
MHW
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How about a trip to the local shoe repair shop ? I have seen a slow turning leather wheel/strop that my local shoe cobbler uses to buff leather!
MHW
...and drill a hole in a J-Nat to run it on that slo-mo motor set up, here with water bath, and we could have finish honing/touch-up and stropping heaven on earth. And for bathroom use find a heavy duty cordless motor and we wouldn't need that ground fault circuit interrupter that the electric code gets so wadded up about.
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I like to strop the old fashion way.
well i think it would take more time and energy than its worth but if you try it im curious to find out how it would work. maby we will all own one of your contracptions, if it works if patent it but i think you are gonna have lots of bugs to work out so you or the razor dosent get hurt.
Is this something with practical application or just an exercise in theory? From a practical standpoint it sounds like a Rube Goldberg approach to stropping.
I agree, and to reiterate, does it really take so long to strop? That's part of the process and fun of shaving with a straight. The more you try and speed it up and mechanize things, the closer it gets to using a mach3 (or 4, 5, or soon to be 6 bladed razor). If something has worked for hundreds of years, chances are there is nothing wrong with the process and the real improvements in it will come from things like using better material and analyzing the technique and determining why it works, so you can tweak it to make it work better (both of which have been done).
Easy there, Rube happens to be a hero of mine. :rock: