Thread: Beginners' Tips: June 2014

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Thanks Ed. Was my video the outdoor one near my pool? And yeah, I love that doona cover

James.

Yup, that one do you ever wake up with a pen in your hand and plots all over the bedding? Do you have a pie chart pillowcase?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Ya, I was thinkin you coulda lined the strops up with the stripes! Great tips, Jimbo!

Bruce

OCD? But it would have been an ad hoc graph, if some had been short and nicked, and getting longer with less nicks, that would have been a good example of technique and time

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Those are a set of kangaroo leather strops I made ages ago. I had the photo on file and figured I wouldn't run into copyright issues with filching my own photo!

James.

Well unless your IP belongs to your employer....

Has anyone seen Ed???
Bruce

Originally Posted by Hirlau

That's great info,,,but can a person strop an Ebay razor to shave ready on the underside of a catfish's belly??

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I'm not sure about the catfish but it is possible with the belly of a spiny dogfish.

Originally Posted by RezDog

I'm not sure about the catfish but it is possible with the belly of a spiny dogfish.

Sigh.......Nice Tips, Jimbo! Stropping is KEY! Without thorough stropping, straight shaving is next to impossible.
"Strop long and prosper"
I am a stropping fiend! You cannot strop too much when stropping correctly.
Listen to Jimbo! STROP!


Bruce

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Sigh.......Nice Tips, Jimbo! Stropping is KEY! Without thorough stropping, straight shaving is next to impossible.
"Strop long and prosper"
I am a stropping fiend! You cannot strop too much when stropping correctly.
Listen to Jimbo! STROP!

Bruce

Yes, sorry, lets not loose the point of the thread, i know i am guilty, but it was peer pressure thanks jimbo, stropping is one of the key skills required to be successful with a straight

That's OK guys. A bit of banter is what makes SRP such a great forum.

But yes, stropping is the name of the game. I know some people (unfortunately no longer contributing members here) who claim, and I have no reason to doubt them, that they've kept a razor shave-ready for up to a year or more by simply maintaining a good stropping technique.

Personally I found stropping the hardest aspect of our discipline to master. But the effort you put into learning how to do it properly, at least in my experience, is repaid ten-fold in the end.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Personally I found stropping the hardest aspect of our discipline to master. But the effort you put into learning how to do it properly, at least in my experience, is repaid ten-fold in the end.

James.

I wholeheartedly agree.
It took me quite some time, and a couple strops to be honest, to get the stropping down.
But as they say, practice makes perfect, and nowadays I find it amazing how much longer you can keep an edge going when stropping correctly

Originally Posted by Birnando

I wholeheartedly agree.
It took me quite some time, and a couple strops to be honest, to get the stropping down.
But as they say, practice makes perfect, and nowadays I find it amazing how much longer you can keep an edge going when stropping correctly

Evidently that must have been true for me too. I kept saying to myself, "What's wrong with this razor that it dulls so quickly?" Then I got another and another and they did the same thing. Finally I realized that the razor was only touching my face and the strop, and since my face doesn't seem so craggy that I could dull a razor in two shaves, it must be my stropping. Low and behold, I watched some videos, bought a quality strop (SRD modular) and things improved immensely. Thanks Jimbo!