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It's good to be able to help people outExcellent stuff @Dansco and very appreciative at this end
As a newbie I would strop on leather only.
Should add here, very light pressure as well. Do not go too hard. Spine first strokes, and roll over on the spine rather than lifting and re positioning the blade.When you strop, the spine and edge should be on the strop at all times (razor should be flat).
The second you lift the spine (moving closer to the angle used to shave), you put excess pressure on the edge and can roll it or damage it.
So yes - very, very low angleflat on the strop
I think he meant "don't use any paste".I have gone with the leather here. For both stropping and strapping
Stropping is not challenging but repetitive and boring, therein lies the problem at least for me, it is easy to loose focus and miss a beat risking damage to edge and or strop, so I tend to do 15 laps, stop for a second to regroup, then another set of 15 laps.
I was taught to strop by practising with a butter knife on my leg (without the butter)
The important thing with stropping is to control the rotational torque so that the razor maintains good contact with the strop. You control this with your thumb. You can feel this on your leg and you get a sense of how much torque is the correct amount.
No but the mrs doesn't appreciate finding your jeans in the washing covered in butter...I like the practice technique here. Is butter bad for your leg or something?
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