Thread: No Stropping!

I would say.......wipe or rinse off the oil and then do 50-60 strokes on the strop and then shave and if it's your first time, please read the wiki and some of the help and tip posts FIRST.

Have fun,

Lynn

I wouldn't, especially if you're new to stropping. Whenever I get a new razor that's pre-honed, the Honemeister always instructs me not to strop before shaving. Sometimes they say not to strop for the first FEW shaves. I've always listened and never had problems.

Untreated carbon steel will begin to rust quite rapidly depending on the moisture in the air however it starts on a microscopic level, nothing you can see even with a loupe and certainly not to affect shaving. I once had a junk razor, carbon steel and I put it in a glass of water and left it. In one week the entire blade was black however with a dremel it all came off very quickly. I put it back in and left it for around a month. This time it wasn't coming off so easy.

As to stropping, if you are confident in your abilities go ahead and strop. Otherwise don't.