Grandslam Leather Strop for Straight Razor Sharpening and Smooth - Professional Straight Razor Knife Cowhide and Canvas Dual Strop (Type 1, Black)

Grandslam Leather Strop for Straight Razor Sharpening and Smooth - Professional Straight Razor Knife Cowhide and Canvas Dual Strop (Type 1, Black)

<b>Learn To Strop</b><br> Stropping is more of a fine-tuning process that helps keep the edge of your blade sharp between uses.<br> It's like daily maintenance.<br> You strop on the leather surface, not the rough leather bottom, but you use the very top of the strop.<br> Stropping is a motion that pulls the cutting edge of a blade away from a strip of leather in order to sharpen the blade. <br>It's a great method of keeping a razor clean and easy to use as it produces a very sharp final edge.<br> Stropping helps smooth the rough edges off your blade and sets the teeth in alignment-it gives a straight razor a keen edge to help make shaving easier.<br> Hanging strops are the most common. They consist of a canvas strap and a leather strip.<br><br> There are two key things to consider when you are stropping your razor:<br> DRAW BLADE AWAY- Always draw the blade away from the cutting edge so that the razor doesn't dig into the leather.<br> BE CONSISTENT - Hold the razor at the same bevel angle consistently throughout the stropping process.<br> DON'T ROLL THE EDGE- Please don't raise the angle up or lower it down, you will destroy the edge.<br>