I can remember i had an uncle that use to make his linen strops out of an old pair of blue jeans. Back then you cut the legs off your jeans to make shorts and my aunt would save them and make strops for him. I know he had a regular strop and linen. I'am thinking he used the blue jean strop for paste maybe?
Pasted strop for edge maintaining
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Yeah soon as i read that i grabbed one off the wall and threw it in the wash machine, It had become a dust collector. This one is about 2.5 wide old Planet Waves strap. I am going to try your theory out tho indeed
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I actually did strop one i bought off ebay that claimed to be shave ready. When it arrived i shaved with it and thought if this is shave ready it just barely is, so i stropped it on the planetwaves and it became even worse. My lapping film just came in yesterday but waiting on a buddy that does granite counter tops to drop me off a sink cut out so i can cut it down to size for my lapping film. I only ordered 1um and 3um so we shall see how it goes once i'am not putting in 14 hr days. Just been to beat to mess with it. But be fair warren ed my stropping skills are very minimal, it could have just been the method i used to be honest
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Well my guess is that the razor was not shave ready at all, of course good stropping tech is also crucial to get great results. It took me about 2 months for sure to learn good stropping technique and knowing all that when you got your tech right(stropping and Shaving) you can go a long way by just stropping on leather and cloth(nylon or else). Let me know the results whit your lapping film will get you.
If you haven't already seen it, this is an interesting video:
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Very instructive! Is it your video or you found it on you tube?
Just one I found while researching pastes.
...From what I understand, pastes and paddle (and loom) strops are more popular in Europe. I have heard that there are straight razor users that only use stones for rare occasions, such as edge damage (chips), but use nothing but pastes or CrOx, etc. for normal edge maintenance. I read a thread where there was an experiment with razors stropped with CrOx and then plain leather before every shave, using nothing else for over a year, with great success. I find this extremely interesting.
Another great video:
Make sure captions are on, if you don't speak Italian.
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I started with a Whippeddog poor man’s strop kit. It came with a balsa strop that had CrOx and FeOx.
once I figured out what I was doing, I found CrOx/FeOx, and CBN .5/.25, and .3 film to be harsh feeling on the face. film and CBN/diamond pastes felt better than CrOx/FeOx, but all of them not as smooth as JNATs, for example. All are perfectly sharp/keen enough, but some harsher feeling than others.
Trying Slash’s .1 diamond on balsa method was pretty revelatory. Supremely keen, but buttery smooth. That .1 completely changes the feel.
I know of no more inexpensive way of getting a fine, comfortable edge. If pastes are your thing, it’s worth trying.
once I figured out what I was doing, I found CrOx/FeOx, and CBN .5/.25, and .3 film to be harsh feeling on the face. film and CBN/diamond pastes felt better than CrOx/FeOx, but all of them not as smooth as JNATs, for example. All are perfectly sharp/keen enough, but some harsher feeling than others.
Trying Slash’s .1 diamond on balsa method was pretty revelatory. Supremely keen, but buttery smooth. That .1 completely changes the feel.
I know of no more inexpensive way of getting a fine, comfortable edge. If pastes are your thing, it’s worth trying.
Haha i 'am guessing he didn't like that brush?
