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    Quote Originally Posted by Obie View Post
    Gentlemen:
    Some habits never die in the world of wet shaving with the straight razor. I started with a 2" strop, where I learned to use the X-pattern. Then I moved to a 2.5" strop, and continued the X-pattern. Now I have a 3" strop, as well as the 2/5", and still do the X-pattern. If a 5" strop comes along, I'll probably do the X-pattern on it, too. It's most comfortable for me. I know that, with all the profound happenings around the world, using the X-pattern on a 3" strop is about as important as an ant drunk on Margaritas, but stropping is important stuff in traditional shaving. Tell me, when stropping, do you find yourself with habits that never die?
    Uh... yup. To this day no matter how dear the strop.... I nick it! Sigh lol.

    Quote Originally Posted by onimaru55 View Post
    I habitually rub my strap with the inside of my wrist.
    Hey is that because every time you get to stropping you have your blade in hand lol? I ask because I do the same thing. And it's because I always forget to rub it when I don't have my razor in hand!

    I guess i could put it down but I never do. The wrist seems to work just fine lol.
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    I shower when I get home from work, at about 6:00pm. This is also when I shave. I admit, I always shave in the buff. I don't go and put on clothes before, takes to long! I gotta get to those whiskers while they're fresh!!! So I guess my habit is shaving naked..... Every time!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY View Post
    I shower when I get home from work, at about 6:00pm. This is also when I shave. I admit, I always shave in the buff. I don't go and put on clothes before, takes to long! I gotta get to those whiskers while they're fresh!!! So I guess my habit is shaving naked..... Every time!!!
    LOL - I'll bet 90% of all men shave in the buff! We just don't talk about it... as it's not a picture we wish to paint . Kind of like how I was divinely conceived.
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    Quote Originally Posted by earcutter View Post
    Kind of like how I was divinely conceived.
    You too?!?

    As for shaving, I usually wrap a towel around my waist...not so much to cover my junk, but mainly because it just seems convenient to have a dry towel there held taught to wipe my hands on to dry them.

    As goofy as it sounds (and I'm sharing this for no particular reason), I strop after my shave to aid drying the razor...and because I no longer need to dry my hands, my towel will have been hung up prior to stropping

    I have some odd habits...
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    Quote Originally Posted by earcutter View Post
    Hey is that because every time you get to stropping you have your blade in hand lol? I ask because I do the same thing. And it's because I always forget to rub it when I don't have my razor in hand!

    I guess i could put it down but I never do. The wrist seems to work just fine lol.
    Partly yes but another part of me is also paranoid about getting honing grit from my hand onto the strop. Unfounded of course if I haven't honed but we are talking habits here.

    Quote Originally Posted by unit View Post
    As goofy as it sounds (and I'm sharing this for no particular reason), I strop after my shave to aid drying the razor

    I have some odd habits...
    Not goofy at all. Some makers recommended post shave stropping for this very reason.

    Summoning fire without flint or tinder, now that's odd, Tim.
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    Quote Originally Posted by earcutter View Post
    We just don't talk about it... as it's not a picture we wish to paint . Kind of like how I was divinely conceived.
    And here I thought you were the product of Immaculate Excretion...

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    Quote Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus View Post
    And here I thought you were the product of Immaculate Excretion...
    Wrong... so very wrong lol.

    Two minutes lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by earcutter View Post
    Wrong... so very wrong lol.

    Two minutes lol.
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    Who's running? I know from some of the comments we al should be...Habits...Well to buck the trend of all these blokes running around with their tackle flopping around in the breeze, I actually put my socks and jeans on before I shave. It is almost, but not quite, a habit. I'll settle for shorts on a stinking hot day.


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    My odd habit is to light up a cigarette & have a sip of coffee right after lathering my face but before stropping the razor.
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