Razor Strops
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A razor strop is flexible strip of leather or canvas used to sharpen a thin blade such as a straight razor. Fine powdered jeweler's rouge or other pastes can be added to the leather as an abrasive to polish the blade.
Unlike honing a blade, in which a whetstone removes metal bent out of alignment from the blade's edge, stropping the blade re-aligns the indentations without removing any material.
The strop may be a hanging strip or a hand-held paddle.[1]
Contents
Using a strop
Please refer to the article Razor stropping in the stropping category.
Treating and repairing strops
Please refer to the article strop treatment and repair.
Humour: Top 10 reasons why strops are better than hones
10. You can get a dull razor to shave with good stropping, but you can't hone a razor smooth enough to be able to shave
9. You never hear anybody say "I over stropped again"
8. You can always put paste on a strop
7. You can send your razor out to be honed, but you can't send it out to be stropped
6. You don't have to soak a strop in order for it to work
5. You can't tie a hone up in the bathroom
4. You can't snap a hone and make the kids clean their room.
3. You can't get a cat to chase a dangling hone into a wall, but a strop does the job really well.
2. You can't dry your back with a hone, but the linen side of a strop finally has a use now.
1. A strop in the bedroom makes you look like a frisky stud, a hone in the bedroom makes you look like a woodworker.[2]
