Why we still strop our razors by hand
Disposable blades are safer and faster, so why does a leather strop still hang by Henrik's chair? A short note on edges and habits.
For every client we use a fresh single-use blade in a shavette. The strop is for the classic straight razors we keep for demonstrations and for our own shaves.
Stropping does not sharpen a blade, it straightens the microscopic edge that bends with every pass. Twenty strokes on leather each morning, the same way Henrik was taught.
The strop is the first thing I touch when I unlock the door. It tells me what kind of day my hands are having.Henrik Lund
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