Thread: How High?

I hang mine off of a door-handle, and stropping certainly
feels comfortable this way.

- Scott

Everyone who already has a strop fixed to something has their opinion formed from what is working for them and probably any height from level with the floor to strop with your toes to ceiling high to strop with you nose is do-able. I think for the least commotion attaching the strop between waist and elbow high makes things stropping the easiest: not a lot of bending, not too many contortions.

good leathering, good shaving

Originally Posted by bharner

I put a few more love bites on my strop.

Sorry to hear that

It's the same feeling you get when you notice you have received a parking ticket.

That's why I travel with a paddle - there are rarely correctly positioned hooks for my strop.

I hang mine off the towel rack in the shave den, so around shoulder to chest height.

Stropping didn't click for me until I got the hook up high. I like to keep my elbow on the same plane as the strop with an upward stroke.

...Ray

I installed a hook just for my strop. Just checked the height... it's about 1/3rd of the way up between my navel and my nipples. At that height, my elbows are in the same plane when stropping--the left one from pulling the strop taut, and the right one working the blade. I didn't plan it that way, I just put it at the most comfortable height for me.

I also travel with a paddle strop, rather than endanger my hanger with lots of different heights, and so I never have to fold it.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I prefer a flat-ish plane where I can let gravity do the job both ways & keep shoulders relaxed. I just direct traffic.
Just below my navel height works for me.

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

+1, I agree with that height, as it does relax the shoulders and you can concentrate on the "flip" and relax...YMMV. I have my strop attched to the towel rod with a rawhide loop.

Agreed. I placed a hook in my sink cabinet about waist high. Lets me be relaxed as I strop. My Zen time.