Advice for first attempt at stropping
Hi all,
I've had a look through the library on here, watched a load of stropping videos and will perform my first strop in the next few days before embarking on shave number 3. I've even had a practice the the butter knife and my belt and it doesn't seem that difficult in theory.
I'm still worried as a lot of people feel that as sure as you're born, you'll blunt your first razor learning to strop. I really want to avoid doing this so am looking for advice from people as to how their first strops went and what other pitfalls to avoid. Can a first strop truly be a guaranteed failure?
Cheers for any advice.
G
Re: Advice for first attempt at stropping
And to try abd answer the question to the x patern I always try to use tge rolling x pattern for the simple fact of not all strops are 3” wide and that is the best way to get contact on all of your blade. And if there are any dips in your strop you dont want that 1 spot in your blade not to reap the benifeits of the strop. Although you should be carefull when flipping blade not to cut strop. I've never done this myself knock on wood but I've herd stories.