Joel, a question ...

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Joel

>look at the link for stropping instructions.


stropping instructions

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Dale Stansbery

>I guess all the old timers knew something after all. All those old razor straps out there were used without any abrasive compounds as far as I know. I remember dad stropping away on his razor when I was little.

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paul womack

>All those old razor straps out there were used without any abrasive compounds as far as I know.

Don't be so sure...

Razor strop paste

I assume this wasn't purely a simple leather treatment, since in this period general purpose leather treatments (for horses harness, boots etcs) were widely available.

Certainly my older reference books speak of carvers using jeweller's rouge on their strops.

BugBear

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Todd Stock

>From what I've seen, untreated cowhide loses it's ability to polish the edge over time (surface silica wears away?), so strop dressing would seem to address the issue by adding fresh abrasive.

I have some of the strop paste that Garrett Wade (I think) used to sell - wax plus some jewelers rouge. Seemed to work OK.

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Joel

>What I am suggesting has nothing to do with strop treatment. just try it. the abrasives a barber uses on a strop or even the green rouge carvers use are considerable coarser (and uneven) than your average 8k stone or hard arkasas. Yhe goal here is to get rid of the last of a wire edge, not create more - which any abrasive will do. Just try it. If it doesn't work for you then don't do it.

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Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT

>As far as I remember, the barber's strops were two sided. One had the rouge or emory paste, the other was bare leather.

My four sided German strop starts with slate, then emory, then rouge, and the final side is bare leather.

Greg

Thanks - perfect

Clay C in Miami

>I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't even think of looking there for it ...

Clay