Thread: Article 1897, Human skin razor strop.

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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