We shall soon reach a stage where our razor will be dulled and require stropping and the efficient stropping of a razor is, to many people, a more difficult operation than the cutting of sections.
When it is required you will become aware of it, from the fact that stropping will not sharpen it.
The object of stropping is not to make the blade thinner, but to smooth the edge, taking off the rough surface of the little teeth which have been developed, and setting them all in perfect alignment.
Again rotate, and continue the stropping until the razor is sharp.
On the other hand, most of the safety razors are difficult to keep clean and dry, and therefore free from rust; and owing to the difficulty of stropping them, it is almost, if not quite impossible to keep them sharp.
We venture to assert, however, that honing a razor is at least as easy as stropping it.
On the contrary, stropping a razor, instead of giving it a thin and flat edge, always has a tendency to produce a rounded one.
If, however, the razor should require honing, no amount of stropping will put a keen edge on it.
Draw the blade over the paper obliquely, away from the edge, in the same direction as when stropping it.
This must be removed by stropping on both sides alternately.
If you only once put away your razor without stropping or otherwise cleaning the edge, you must no longer expect to shave well, the soap and damp so soon rust the fine teeth or edge.
The practice of pressing on the edge of a razor in stropping generally rounds it; the pressure should be directed to the back, which must never be raised from the strop.
Don't say that, sir," said the barber, still stropping his razor gently.
Illustration: Naiband Barber Stropping a Razor on his Leg.
He carried all the tools of his trade around his waist in a belt, and ground his razor first on a stone which he licked with his tongue, then using his bare arms and legs for stropping purposes, as snapshotted in the accompanying photograph.
At the time it had seemed to him that the Earl's remark that the latter needed polishing and the former stropping betrayed only a kindly consideration for his guest's well-being.
Arthur, who was stropping a razor and whistling tunelessly, raised his eyebrows.
When I opened my door the deputation implored me to cease stropping and start shaving at once, and thus restore peace to the strained situation.
As I wanted to make a respectable appearance at breakfast, I kept on stropping diligently.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stropping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
