Thread: Article 1897, Human skin razor strop.

April 1st - april fools day - I thought it may have been something like Orson Wells got up to with his spoof broadcast.

Martin - I've already got one bum leg... SWMBO - don't make me laugh! I only let her think that I think thats her title...

Regards,
Neil

Well sounds perfectly reasonable to me. i've stropped on my arm before but a properly muscled female thigh is a wonderful strop just not always convenient which is why i have regular strops.

That's kinda creepy, but intriguing as well. Guess I will bypass donating my body to science and donate to the arts [of wet shaving science]!

Sadly, with current laws, it would be difficult to make a new human skin strop. Also, I would suggest that the back of a slightly portly woman would actually be the best.
Luckily pig leather is very similar to the many aspects of human and is in much greater abundance in the sense of commercial production.
Just some thoughts...

Originally Posted by deighaingeal

Sadly, with current laws, it would be difficult to make a new human skin strop. Also, I would suggest that the back of a slightly portly woman would actually be the best.
Luckily pig leather is very similar to the many aspects of human and is in much greater abundance in the sense of commercial production.
Just some thoughts...

True. My cousin suffered burns to 70% of his body and lived. He made the centerfold of Life magazne that year. The Doctor's wound up using pig skin to graft to his body. He didn't have enough of his own.
I remember it well. It was 1981 and he was in the same hospital as the Shah of Iran. There was security up the butt.

I didn't know Hannibal Lector used a straight razor! It makes sense as he does comes across as dapper and civilized - except for the cannibalism of course....

Originally Posted by zib

True. My cousin suffered burns to 70% of his body and lived. He made the centerfold of Life magazne that year. The Doctor's wound up using pig skin to graft to his body. He didn't have enough of his own.
I remember it well. It was 1981 and he was in the same hospital as the Shah of Iran. There was security up the butt.

Must have been Mayo. How is he doing? I hope it is good.

Originally Posted by deighaingeal

Sadly, with current laws, it would be difficult to make a new human skin strop. Also, I would suggest that the back of a slightly portly woman would actually be the best.
Luckily pig leather is very similar to the many aspects of human and is in much greater abundance in the sense of commercial production.
Just some thoughts...

I think the cost, assuming a strop could be commissioned, would be prohibitive!
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In advance, I put this link up a month or so ago on another large forum, on a similar thread: the whole friggin thread got deleted without even a polite heads up or explanation. The link is a genuine business which has nothing offensive on it, but some may find it distasteful. I thought it macabre but fascinating.

Martin, you're posting all this amazing info on a daily basis! Where the heck do you find this?? Do you sit at the library and scan through old papers or something? Whatever you're doing, I really enjoy reading it! This is on the creepier side but still very cool!

Wow! That's creepy...