I'm departing from conventional wisdom re so many stropping strokes. I also am doing them more slowly and making each one count.
I completed my 25th totally straight razor shave this morning. The last two were first uses with a Friodur. I honed it on a Naniwa 12K, as it seemed sharp off the bay. My wife got me a Nagura slurry stone which I used.
The shaves were amazing compared. They were BBS on the cheeks and DFS on submandibular and neck.
I backed off stropping from 60 strokes to 50 with no ill effect. Six strokes would be great, but I’d be happy with 20. Anyway, I’m backing off by 10 strokes each week until I reach 10, or the blade seems to suffer.
Anytime I’ve seen a barber in movies do it, which isn’t often, it seems like they do about six.
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