Once a month send these to a barber to be stropped, and strop them yourself both before and after using.
When the tool has been sufficiently stropped, and all burr removed, it is ready for use, but it is as well to try it on a piece of wood first, and test it for burr, and if necessary strop it again.
Strop the inside by folding up the leather into a little roll or ball until it fills the hollow of the tool.
Strop the outside of the tool, and test for burr, then lay the leather over the handle of another tool and strop the inside, repeating the operation until all burr has been removed, when probably the tool will be ready for use.
A Razor Strop Paste is also made of candle-snuffs, and answers very well.
The best razor-strop in the world is one's own hand, moistened with its own natural oil or perspiration.
The hone and razor-strop should be kept in good condition.
Sharpen the razor thus before you wash your hands, and you will find this natural strop most efficacious.
Mechi's celebrated Magic Razor Strop Paste is certainly an excellent article, but we question whether it be much superior to the ordinary and common-place substance now recommended.
When Toole as Jacques Strop hid the dinner in his pocket, Henry, after much labor, thought of his hiding the plate inside his waistcoat.
There was much laughter later on when Macaire, playfully tapping Strop with his stick, cracked the plate, and the pieces fell out!
This is better than tostrop knives and other tools on your boots.
A piece of hard, smooth leather on which to strop your tools you can easily procure.
You can then use the strop lying flat on the board or loose in your hand for curved edges.
For flat edges see that the stroprests on a flat surface, so as not to tend to round the edge, as it may do if held carelessly in the hand.
The traveller is a strong parrel-strop which passes round the mast, and through two thimbles of which the breast backstays reeve.
A single block used in the clue of square-sails for the clue-lines to lead through; it has a shoulder left on each side to prevent the strop from chafing.
A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the strop of one of the blocks.
A strong hook which is a continuation of the iron strop of the cat-block, used to hook the ring of the anchor when it is to be drawn up or catted.
The inner end is seized by its eye within the brace-block-strop and head-earing-cleat.
A large single block with an iron strop and hook, by which it is hooked into an eye-bolt under the lower cap, and is used for the top-pendant to reeve through in swaying up or lowering down the top-masts.
In blocks, confines the hook and thimble in the strop home to the scores.
A two or three fold block, with an iron strop and large hook to it, which is employed to cat or draw the anchor up to the cat-head, which is also fitted with three great sheaves to correspond.
A rope spliced into the strop or round of any block, leaving a long end for making fast to rigging, spars, &c.
For use, a piece is pasted on the strop and moistened with a little oil.
If you shave from heel to point of the razor, strop it from point to heel; but if you begin with the point, then strop from heel to point.
The above (generally made up into square cakes) are rubbed over the razor strop, and the surface being smoothed off with the flat part of a knife or a phial bottle, the strop is set aside for a few hours to harden before being used.
The double stropis used for large blocks; it gives more support to the shell than the single strop and admits of smaller rope being used.
The strop may be made the required length by a long splice, but it would not possess any advantage.
This description of strop is much stronger and more supple than rope of similar size.
A large stropshould be warped round four or six pegs in order to give it the shape in which it is to be used.
As a general rule, the parts of a strop combined should possess greater strength than the parts of the fall which act against it.
Another oar is now laid across, with its loom resting in the forks; a grummet strop or a short piece of rope is made fast to the middle of each of the boat's stretchers; if the end is frayed out, so much the better.
Massa didn't 'low no oberseer to tote no strop 'hine his niggers.
I allus worked in the field, had to carry big logs, had strops on my arms and them logs was put in de strop and hauled to a pile where they all was.
Putting his foot upon the side rail of the deck, and placing one end of the strop upon his leg, he drew the razor several times across it.
You are next, but wait a moment, let me draw the razor across the strop once or twice.
Giving a final tug at the strop to make sure as far as possible that the rafter would hold, Terence slid into the loop and swung himself clear of the wall.
Whipping out his knife Terence cut off about six or seven feet of rope, using the severed portion as a strop to make fast the block to a pair of rafters.
Dem Klux wud cotch er nigger dat dey want en pin he haid down ter de groun wid er forked stick en one wud hold him whilst de others whip im wid er strop er a lash.
