Thread: Stropping on Your ARM...

Hmm..I would be concerned with salts and other things on your skin that might remain on the edge unless you wipe it down afterwards.

Gentlemen, really, there is something to be said about stropping on the strop. What would the straight razor ritual be without a strop? What would a glorious single malt scotch be without a whisper of water to create fireworks in the flavor?

Sure, you can strop on almost anything — well, pretend to strop, anyway, since few of us are barbers who can manage arm stropping — but you've already incurred some expense by acquiring a razor, brush and soap. Add a few more shekels to the tab and buy a strop. If you take care of it, it will last almost a lifetime.

Come now, gentlemen, some things are sacred: a strop, for instance in the straight razor shave.

id tell him to use the strop as a strop or you're going to use it as a belt and smack some sense into him.

Be careful about flipping the blade at the end of your stroke.

he will stop when he "nicks the strop" good and proper....

I strop on my wrist &/or hand on occasion as an "icing on the cake" approach but not to the exclusion of using my strops.
Xmas is coming Carl. Buy him a 'real' strop.

buying wax for dreads? I thought those things pretty much took care of themselves.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

I strop on my wrist &/or hand on occasion as an "icing on the cake" approach but not to the exclusion of using my strops.
Xmas is coming Carl. Buy him a 'real' strop.

No way!! That sends the message that if he doesn't do something, his dad will pick up the slack. Let that razor get ridiculously dull, the tell him "hhhmmmm....maybe you need a real strop". Follow that up with a quick "get a haircut!"

Don't shoot the messenger here but pretty sure I've read somewhere that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens if you prefer) claimed to get better shaves when he finished stropping on his forearm

Originally Posted by JohnP

Don't shoot the messenger here but pretty sure I've read somewhere that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens if you prefer) claimed to get better shaves when he finished stropping on his forearm

yeah.......... but he was a notorious story teller.....