Thread: day 2 and nicked my strop...

Thanks... Encouragement Appreciated!

Originally Posted by TucoRamirez

It's part of the learning process. I am sure almost all of newbies damage their strops in the beginning, I know I did. I sanded out the damage.

As did I. I actually suspect that for a lot of people, experience in this area is quite narrow. Nicking a strop is not something you do everyday, I've only done it once, so can only say what worked for me that one time...

As far as the chin goes, only got WTG initially. Generally, I wear a goatee, so don't have a great deal of experience there either, but I wanted to shave my chin at least once, so shaved off the goatee a few months ago; just so I could say that I HAVE shaved my chin. I kept it shaven for a month or so. I found ATG on my chin, esp just under the point quite difficult.

Originally Posted by thisoldfish

i created a similar nick on my chin this evening... Maybe I'll try crazy glue/sanding?? (kidding). (chin is hard!! Can get eveything else ok- chin is rough terrain for me)

You'll find your chin fairly easy to shave once you get the angles down for that part of your face -- with no pressure at all. What solved the chin problem for me was "golf ball practice." One member said to take a golf ball and "shave" it with a butter knife, to visualize and feel what you will need to do with your razor on your chin to maintain a 30 deg angle on WTG passes, a 15 deg angle on XTG passes and a 5 deg angle in ATG passes. Being able to see how I had to continually adjust the angle while I moved the butter knife over the golf ball was a light bulb moment for me. Applying that principle to my chin -- with no pressure at all -- enabled me to shave my chin WTG, XTG & ATG without nicking myself and no razor burn.

I'd go with sanding I think it's the easiest fix IMO

[QUOTE=thisoldfish;962289]hi all
new to straight razor. was happy with 1st 2 days-- actually able to get 2 shaves in without mutilating myself. perhaps overconfident with my stropping, must have moved the blade unevenly and nicked by stop today. I've read about gluing, sanding, leaving alone, etc. mind looking at this and giving me an opinion on which/any/nothing to do? Do stops get nicked and still ok to use? I assume because they're not a grinding/sharpening surface it's ok to have some irregularity unlike a hone? Please tell me I didn't just ruin a brand new strop. Because that would in fact be something that I am quite capable of.

advice to the newbie? thanks.

brad
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Thisoldfish,

Check out this blog for stropping help.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/membe...ng-method.html

Jerry

After using the DMT325, should I apply neatsfoot oil? I am using bridle leather.

I wouldn't use any neetsfoot oil at this point.

Just rub the palm of your hand vigorously on your strop up and down its length approximately 50x to transfer your body's own natural oils to the repaired spot. Do this several times over the next few days or weeks to further smooth out that repaired area of your strop.

I use the pumice stone (sold in the foot care section of Wal Mart). When I start fooling around with that glue I wind up gluing myself more than the object I intended.

Originally Posted by Thetalai

I'd go with sanding I think it's the easiest fix IMO

I nicked my (relatively) new strop a few days ago, and I just got around to repairing last night...It was a bad nick, so I cut off the flap with cuticle shears as close as possible to the body of the strop, then sanded down with 600grit, then 1000 grit, then 1500 grit, then gave it a vigerous stroking...

Seems to work just as new, there's just a bit of a divot there...

Don't feel bad man, the other day I was stropping a Gong razor (6/8) and lost my rythm/train of though and didn't just nick my strop, but SLICED the crap out my strop. I've been at this for several years & this was the worst I have ever damaged a strop.

Poo-Poo happens!