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stropping razor on arm

In the past when barbers in India used to use regular straight razors (rather than ones with an inserted blade), they stropped on the inside (non-hairy) side of their forearm. And they did so casually, seemingly with half an attention. I used to think that was trivial/routine until I held a straight razor in my hand.
 
Scroll to the end of the video for some fast palm stropping by
Mastro Livi
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Mastro Livi is a legend and knows his stuff, even he has nicks on his leather strops. I am trying to sell my kidney to buy one of his razors.

I do strop on my palm from time to time to learn and also understand how effective it is. But it still is nerve wrecking at least to me.
 
Palm stropping from about 1 minute onward
Will try to watch that with someone who understands Italian.
 
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