Grandslam Leather Strop for Straight Razor Sharpening and Smooth - Professional Straight Razor Knife Cowhide and Canvas Dual Strop Brown

Learn To Strop
Stropping is more of a fine-tuning process that helps keep the edge of your blade sharp between uses.
It's like daily maintenance.
You strop on the leather surface, not the rough leather bottom, but you use the very top of the strop.
Stropping is a motion that pulls the cutting edge of a blade away from a strip of leather in order to sharpen the blade.
It's a great method of keeping a razor clean and easy to use as it produces a very sharp final edge.
Stropping helps smooth the rough edges off your blade and sets the teeth in alignment-it gives a straight razor a keen edge to help make shaving easier.
Hanging strops are the most common. They consist of a canvas strap and a leather strip.

There are two key things to consider when you are stropping your razor:
DRAW BLADE AWAY- Always draw the blade away from the cutting edge so that the razor doesn't dig into the leather.
BE CONSISTENT - Hold the razor at the same bevel angle consistently throughout the stropping process.
DON'T ROLL THE EDGE- Please don't raise the angle up or lower it down, you will destroy the edge.