Owd Wullie wrote:That "barber/actor" didn't know jack schitt about stropping a razor either.
Willie,
To execute the "Barber Roll" on a strop, do you make certain the razor never leaves the strop?
I strop my carving knives on a piece of pigskin, with compound, and will often strop without the blade leaving the strop ... (go one side up, then roll the blade over w/o picking the blade off the strop, then back down, all the while maintaing the correct bevel angle of the knife) to ensure there is no "rounding" of the edge. I have heard this technique referred to as the "Barber Roll?" Don't know if that's true or not?
That feller/barber/actor, strops like they all do in the movies, quick and haphazardly, surely rounding those fragile edges? I know nothing about honing/maintaing a straight razor, but have rounded a few edges in the past through poor/over stropping techniques.
I'm enjoyin' the razor conversations here ... just may have to break a few of mine out...