I'm a big fan of watching as many videos as possible. After the wife goes to bed, I will spend probably an hour or two watching videos of different things. Of course mostly shaving. One of my current things I watch is Murray Carter and his shaving and sharpening videos and most of the things he does makes a lot of sense to me (spine first honing, hardback stropping). The one I can't understand is his constant use of chromium oxide coated leather as his last step before shaving. I can't wrap my head around this and am really wondering, does anyone shave straight off of chromium oxide whether it's on a leather or balsa wood strop? I trying to understand the science of the straight razor and for the most part Murray Carter does a fabulous job of "dumbing down" the science of the razor to me but this is one thing I can't seem to grasp. Maybe someone with some experience (either shaving with it or knowing if this will actually make the shave better) could explain this.
I put this in the strop section due to the obvious (at least IMO), but if it needs to be placed in the general straight razor area, please move it.
I put this in the strop section due to the obvious (at least IMO), but if it needs to be placed in the general straight razor area, please move it.