Straight Razor – my first stromp!
About 2 years ago I bought my first stromp to hone/sharpen my straight razors. There are some fancy 100 Euro + models out there and my first thoughts were, you got it for decades so – spent the money. On the other side I wasn´t sure If straight razors would be my thing.
Luckily I went for a relatively cheap one. It´s not that I stoped to straight razor shave, but as a beginner you cut the leather so easily. In most tutorials or movies they stromp very fast, which makes absolutely no sense esp. if you are not a “master” in it. Just go about 20 times slowly with hardly any pressure over the leather, thats it.
And at the beginning you are a bit nervous or let me say not so focused. So making a false movement with the blade is done so quickly. So my advice is, save the money and buy a nice one after you ruined the first one.
I guess in about a year, I´m ready to buy something more appropriate for my razors. But in ne meantime, this one serves me well.
Wow, nice strop, Alex.
I have a similar strop and jeweller’s rouge, that I use for sharpening some of my leather tools, but the one you have looks so much better. I’m a bit jealous.
Best regards Simon
hmm nice – its just a cheap classic one for 20 Euro. If you are looking for the real stuff check this webshops specialized on shaving.
http://shop.nassrasur.com/de/Riemen-Pasten-und-Steine?xce4c2=fc9d6864a7b887afe8534f0b5c5bc0e3
or this one
http://www.rasurpur.de/shop/accessoires/strops/strops.html
did not know that stromps are used to sharpen leather tools, ultrasharp i guess!
typical for a perfectionist like you
bye
alex