Thread: An Intro and a Couple of Quick Questions...

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Here's one more option, in case you say that you have no room to put a hook.....

I'm assuming that you shave when looking into a mirror, and also that this mirror is firmly attached to the wall. They make great hooks that use suction cups, and these have a special lever-action to really increase the suction provided by the cup like whoa..... I use these for all sorts of stuff.

Buy these suction hooks here: Clear PowerLock Large Suction Hook

Just put the suction hook on your mirror, hang your strop, and strop away.

OR, ANOTHER SOLUTION:

Take your strop into your kitchen before you shave and hook it to your freezer/refrigerator door. Strop your razor, then go shave in the bathroom, and put away your strop.

Or, you can get a hanger and make a hook that hangs over the door hinge of your bathroom door. If you pull hard enough to pull the hinge off the door frame, then either lighten up, or tell your crappy landlord to shove it and move to a sturdy home.

Basically, my point here is that many of us would love to have a brand new strop from the Heirloom strop company, but we would KILL to have an ACTUAL HEIRLOOM strop from our forefathers. If I had 4 Tony Miller strops and could trade them all for ONE of my grandfather's old strops, I'd do it in a flash. You are in the lucky position to actually have such a strop.

You can always buy a new one, but you can NEVER buy your grandpa's old one.

Use it, and enjoy the heritage. You're lucky.

BUT, that said, become proficient with stropping before you even touch your inherited strop. You want it to last just as long as it did for your grandfather, and you don't want to go and ruin it in two months by nicking the crap out of the edges because of lack of skill. Buy a used strop and practice and get dang good before you ever touch the old strop.

Here's the strop you should buy, from the SRP classifieds: Proforma Latigo Strop - Straight Razor Place Classifieds

Have fun and enjoy,