Thread: Article 1897, Human skin razor strop.

That article wasn't from April 1st 1897, was it Martin?

Loved it!

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

That article wasn't from April 1st 1897, was it Martin?

Neil, That article does come up in various newspaper but no specific date other then 1897. There are other example as well like this one.

Sounds like a loving wife to me always thinking of her husband passion for razors.........
Are you looking for new strop material?

Originally Posted by Martin103

Sounds like a loving wife to me always thinking of her husband passion for razors.........
Are you looking for new strop material?

I wasn't, but having read that you never know - maybe ma-in-law: she would be good for a few hundred, I reckon! Have to find a way to get the wrinkles out, though....

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

I wasn't, but having read that you never know - maybe ma-in-law: she would be good for a few hundred, I reckon! Have to find a way to get the wrinkles out, though....

Regards,
Neil

So why did you ask about the specific date?
Dont let your swmbo look at that last post you may end up with two bum legs......

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.

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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