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Aye..I hear You..But the blade & spine need to be flat on the Strop at All Times..The same principle applies when stropping all Blades & Straights..Its Paramount..The Stropping Handle of Course Acts as your Spine..I didn't use the tape to set the angle. I think if you did that the edge wouldn't even touch the strop. I used the tape to get a grip on the blade. I examined the bevel with a loupe and then stropped the blade at an angle that made sense to me. It seems to have worked as the blade was cutting arm hair better than before. Due to the tape handles I wasn't able to use much pressure when stropping (the tape twists), a lot less than I reckon a blade gets in an autostropper, judging by my experience with the Valet. With my gentle stropping I guess I would have needed way more laps to get the best result, but I just couldn't do any more. Then I recklessly decided to have a go with the blade today. I'm glad I did.
Yay!Proper stropper should help ... it's on its way.
Auto Strops work well but One has to be Real Careful about the Pressure being used with them..Its very easy to Go for your life with them..Its also very easy to round an Edge off with them an All..Its all down to Learning through the Practice..There are Pros & Cons with them like anything else..Proper stropper should help ... it's on its way.
New SE Gem Stainless coated can be got from Connaught great fast service.Dear all,
I had my first try with a UK Ever Ready SE 1912. Went very well.
It was picked up from here not sure of the blades that were kindly included. Think they are GEM.
Any recommendations or sources for others please?
Regards
Ben
New SE Gem Stainless coated can be got from Connaught great fast service.
Thanks very much will have a look.
Best regards,
Ben
Get you're hands on an Injector ..You wont look back..Great SE s..Steve, thanks for that. I have been DE shaving for a while and have only just thought to try the Ever Ready and was very impressed.
I've read those posts with great interest, Billy. For the last couple of days I've been playing with the idea of making a computer model of one and have it 3D printed. Very, very early days thoughSome Folks were asking me before about the Size of the Proper Stropping Handle to make one Up..See My Thread over in the Shave Den..
http://theshaveden.com/forums/posts/1022245/
Billy
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