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The reason for a strop is not to straighten the razor. It's to straighten the microscopic sawtooth-like metal burs that form on the edge from sharpening and use. You strop a knife. Do you say you are straightening the knife? No. Bc your not straightening the knife. You're straightening the burr. So no you aren't straightening the razor. You're straightening the edge on the microscopic level. The video is misleading.
I too believe it to be to remove micro burrs based on my previous knowledge. There exists a world where both parties are correct, whether or not it is the world we currently occupy I cannot say.
I think you are both correct, having burrs on the razor will cause a misaligned edge especially since it’s so thin at the cutting edge. I’ve always thought of it similar to a honing rod for kitchen knifes.
You can go two days while using a knife like that for work, opening boxes, cutting take, taking off a tiny bit of wood from a board, like after all that you can use a strop and it'll be sharp as hell again it's not just for removing a bur
Eh, sort of. Removing a burr is a use of a strop, but normally (if sharpening properly) you won’t have much if any burr to remove once you get to your strop, and if you’re honing from use (especially with shaving razors) they don’t actually develop a burr from shaving, therefore the strop just is keeping the blade uniform and polished.
Leather is used to remove the microbur after sharpening but I believe in this case it’s used almost like a honing rod in the kitchen. It just realigns the blade in between uses thus preventing you from having to constantly sharpen.
No thats a loaded strop. Its different and it is flat and backed with wood.this is unloaded and slack ti reset the microscopic edge that has became wobbly as the man describes
@@rogerkidd6103 no a burr is the loose flap you wish to remove. When you sharpen the edge in aperfect world there would be no burr.. You definitely dont want an burrs on a razor. Hence the loaded strop to remove it. The leather unloaded slack strop resets the edge the edge its self.. Not a burr gets deformed by your har and becomes rippled on a microscopic level. The slack strop realigns it without removing any material. Burning steels do the same thing for knives and tools they are very hard smooth polished steel rods, in the past butcher used them along with a sharpening steel to burnish the edge so it lasted longer without any metal being removed. Butchers steels and loaded strops remove metal.. Burrs are a byproduct of sharpening before proper honing is performed. Razors should never have any form odf a burr if you value your face
On the microscopic scale for a blade, straightening = sharpening = polishing. You polish the two surfaces that form the edge with abrasives of increasingly fine grit, making the edges meet in as straight and narrow a line as possible. In the process of this abrading, little burrs of metal will form on the edge. These can be removed before or during the next step up in polishing. Leather is a good final step because it is tough but not hard, meaning it can catch and pull off burrs without also scratching the edge. Many enthusiasts also apply a paste of ultra-fine polish/abrasive to the leather, which makes it double as a cheap and more portable alternative to an ultra-fine whetstone.
Strops are for polishing the edge and thus removing micro burs. Those burs make the edge more jagged and can catch on hair as opposed to slicing it. This is true for any very sharp knife or blade. You sharpen it, that creates a bur if done properly, stroping it removes the bur and refines the edge.
This a weird way to explain it. Over time small pieces of the metal pull away from the blade and form what are called burrs. Essentially slivers of metal roll upp along the edge blocking its cutting potential. The strop doesn't straighten the blade so much as it tears those burrs away embedding them in the surface of the leather.
@@Lemon_Sage9999No for sure you can sharpen a lot of different things to the point they can shave hair. A carpenter showed me his technique to sharpen a chisel and we got to a point that it started to shave my arm hairs! It’s a truly satisfying thing to do, if you ever get the chance.
If it’s not taking hair off you didn’t do a good job sharpening tbh. Even an axe will take hairs off if done right. But depending on the use of the tool if you actually need it that sharp.
I mean yes, but it also polishes the blade. The whole point of a strop is to straighten and polish the edge, to make it more uniform and provide a better cutting interface. You can add abrasive but even just raw leather like this will have a polishing effect.
Not very much of one. It would take over 50 passes on bare leather to see any difference under a microscope, hundreds to have an actual effect. Bare strops don't really polish, they deburr.
@fig8man You use a strop to deburr the blade after sharpening it, not to straighten a blade. When you sharpen a blade the material thats being removed will curl and cling to the edge and a strop brakes it off makeing the blade as sharp as it can be
Information on sharpening blades is convoluted and everyone thinks they get the science. There is a reason experts contradict each other and techniques seem to do the same thing but based on entirely different mechanisms.
@@dee5298anything that isn't malleable and capable of conforming to the shape of the blade will form a bur. The soft pine can totally remove a bur and not create a new one, as it's soft enough to ever so slightly conform around the apex of the blade breaking the material off, this is very effective! But the 800 grit stone is incapable of wrapping around the tip of your blade. So while it can remove the bur present on one side, even with the softest touch it will still create a bur, while likely smaller than the original. This is because metal is malleable, even the hardest steel, and sharpening scrapes and pushes material in a similar to molding and scraping clay. The metal wants to stick to itself the same way clay does, the reason metal doesn't is due to oxidization, but the sharpening process can move some of the metal without introducing oxygen. This forms a bur with an attachment point just over the apex of the blade meaning anything not flexible enough to reach far and tight enough around that apex will without a doubt leave a bur. Although not all burs are created equal and they can be small enough to not matter much or wear away at first use. So you are right and wrong. You definitely still have a bur on your stuff after using a stone but it's practical enough to use and all the theoretical ways to perfect a blade is simply an art not something practical in the working man's life. Unless you happen to have the one career where it can matter which is being a barber, which is arguably an artisan career, capable of being taken to heights considered to be an art.
Kinda, hes using burr and rolled edge to mean the same thing, which it is in this case, but with tools theres a difference. You can do this with a knife too if you get a rolled edge and itll be the same
Professional woodworker, Furniture maker, and historic restoration carver here. A leather strop doesn’t keep the blade straight. It’s to minimize burrs that have formed in the sharpening process. After you sharpen a blade, chisel or gouge there’s micro metallic burrs that form. The strop takes away the burrs leaving a honed edge for smooth and flawless cutting. And typically with a properly sharpened edge of a cutting tool, the strop is in constant use. It is normal for after using a sharp edge to begin to dull, but not actually dull the true edge. What happens is hair, wood fibers, or anything you’re cutting will create burrs from use and the strop can remove them and get back to a smooth cut as before. So if your blade is sharp, it’ll cut. The strop just keep it cutting for s longer period of time before needing to be sharpened.
Really dont know precisely how you mean that because i am little tipsy, but leather belts can be used for "honing", also cardboard can be used the same
Uhhh. Straightening the edge is sharpening the blade. That's literally what you are doing when sharpening with a stone etc... redefining the edge to make it. "Sharper". A strop just makes Mico adjustments and doesnt remove as much material as a stone does. The strop also removes burrs and helps reduce micro pitting on the razors edge which is one of the leading causes of razor burn. Either way.. its "sharpening" the razor. I feel like they are trying to make this incredibly irrelevant differentiation to try and sound cool or something.
@Wungus_Bill That's what was always the thought. Belive it or not, stropping does infact remove small portions of material. There was a metallurgist that tested it under a microscope and proved that even the slight bend does remove tiny bits of metal. They more ya know eh?
Lmfao this comment section is golden. "He didn't list my word for word description on the use of a strop, he is wrong!" Best part, you're all right and wrong at the same time. A strop, leather strop, razor strop, are multipurpose tools with many different uses and applications like honing, grinding, polishing, sharpening, etc I guess everyone here is a barber or shaves with a straight razor regularly 😂😅
You seem to confuse knowing how to use something with knowing exactly how it achieves what it does. Use of a hone or grindstone to achieve a narrow wedge cross section ultimately is unable to provide a sharp edge, because the very thinnest part of the edge, as grinding progresses, becomes so flexible it will not stand up to the grinding pressure. This leaves a fin projecting past the 'virtual sharp' intersection of the flat planes of the wedge. The knife blade gets thinner as it approaches this "burr", but the burr takes the form of a reverse wedge: it gets slightly thicker again before ending abruptly. To remove it, the burr must be bent one way then the other, repeatedly, until it breaks at the thin neck which was acting as a flexible hinge. This can be done with the palm of the hand, but it is more safely and conveniently and consistently done with a leather strop. In most English speaking nations, "straightening" the edge would not qualify as any sort of explanation for this process.
@Wungus_Bill Where I come from, honing uses a hone, not a strop. Honing with a resilient (eg leather) surface impregnated with abrasive cannot produce flat geometry, it will be curved. So if you are correct, the explanation remains incoherent
It is to hone the blade to be technically correct. Definition: Honing, smooth and sharpen (a blade). As others suggested, it refines the blade. Making it smoother, better.
It is to sharpen the edge by removing very small amounts of metal from the edge. Although in uses like this you'd mostly be removing build ups of residue from the edge, since the difference in the hardness of steel vs hair is so great that you'd need to shave for years in order to actually dull a razor blade.
As a bladesmith, the strop is actually meant to “break the burr” from sharpening. With some fine grit compound, it will technically sharpen it, but really it’s just getting the burr on the edge to break.
This is just like the rods they use to sharpen kitchen knives. The rod maintains the edge, but the knife still needs to be actually sharpened every day.
straightening a cutting edge is called burnishing and chefs use either a hardened steel or ceramic rod to unfold, if you will, an unilinear micro-bevel… the leather strop removes the finest of burrs of your micro bevel from sharpening, ie, polishing/ revealing the sharpest edge possible if prior sharpening/shaping was done correctly 👍🏻
Its to remove the bur created from sharpening, kinda like how you bend tie wire back and forth and it snaps, the same thing happens when you strop, thats why you use it back and forth instead of the normal 1 side sharpening
I know someone else said this but i figured id be more exact. The strop is designed to fold the burs on the blade of the knife back and away from the edge. When you sharpen a knife it creates very small burs. Under a microscope its easy to see. Metal is cubic shaped and the last thing you want is a super small razor sharp cube edge directed towards the blade end. Your blade would look like a sideways w and instead of cutting hair it would grab and rip hair, also doing the same thing to your skin. That bur on a blade can give the blade itself a feeling of being dull or because of how it cuts it can actually dull the blade faster meaning you have to sharpen it more.
A strop polishes the cutting edge. It also will remove the burr after using a stone. It is used in conjunction with polishing compound. I use a Strop every day to hone my edges. Sharpen once. Hone forever .
Fun fact, at least one study found that human hair is comparable to the same density and material strength as a copper wire of the same gauge. This is why face shaving blades can dull so much faster than when you just shave off the finer hairs on your body.
The more accurate way of describing this would be to say that the edge is effectively made of tiny metal bristles called burs, these metal burs bend to either side when met with resistance and the misalignment of the burs makes the blade lose its effectiveness. Stropping aligns all of these burrs to keep the blade as effective as possible
Haha. No!😂 It's for deburring the edge. Basic metallurgy will tell you the steel will never go into plastic deformation and be bent. And a flimsy piece of leather will definitely not bend it back into shape again.
They are called burrs, metal imperfections from damage to metal. Leather is basically an ultra fine grit sandpaper and you're basically using to scrape off the burrs that form from cutting hair.
It's more about removing the burr that is left on the edge of a blade as it's being sharpened. Strops are not just used on straight razors, but to maintain the edge of many knifes.
It's actually to re-hone the blade inbetween customers. To get a blade sharp enough to shave, a blade needs to be polished to a mirror image. The strop also takes the burr off the blade after final polish unless you use a special method using a steel rule and 16000 or higher grit Shapton glass
Strops are used when sharpening any blade as a final polish to the edge to make sure the bur is completely removed. Has absolutely nothing to do with "straightening the blade" as if that were even possible from backwards passes on a piece of leather.
For people who haven't held or seen a real straight razor it isn't like a knife. It's like a paper thin sheet of razor sharp high carbon steel. It's literally thinner than printer paper
Technically, it is sharpening the edge, it's just not removing material. You sharpen to grind the correct edge into the metal, then you hone to remove the bur and straighten both sides, and the strop is actually to polish both sides of the edge so that it reduces friction and becomes the sharpest it possibly can.
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Stroping removes the bur created from properly sharpening a blade. It will NEVER bend under normal circumstances.
Your guest is speaking absaloute bullshit.
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The reason for a strop is not to straighten the razor. It's to straighten the microscopic sawtooth-like metal burs that form on the edge from sharpening and use.
You strop a knife. Do you say you are straightening the knife? No. Bc your not straightening the knife. You're straightening the burr. So no you aren't straightening the razor. You're straightening the edge on the microscopic level. The video is misleading.
I too believe it to be to remove micro burrs based on my previous knowledge. There exists a world where both parties are correct, whether or not it is the world we currently occupy I cannot say.
I think you are both correct, having burrs on the razor will cause a misaligned edge especially since it’s so thin at the cutting edge. I’ve always thought of it similar to a honing rod for kitchen knifes.
100% correct, it has absolutely nothing to do with keeping it straight, some people will just believe anything
@@bigreddog502lmao and you’re one of them. it straightens the edge
@@cooperswan534 Google it
It's to remove the burr. He's explaining it mostly correctly, but in a weird way. Probably to make it easier for the general public to understand?
Kind of depends, after a general sharpening it can be used to remove the burr but you can also use it to straighten a blade slightly.
You can go two days while using a knife like that for work, opening boxes, cutting take, taking off a tiny bit of wood from a board, like after all that you can use a strop and it'll be sharp as hell again it's not just for removing a bur
Eh, sort of. Removing a burr is a use of a strop, but normally (if sharpening properly) you won’t have much if any burr to remove once you get to your strop, and if you’re honing from use (especially with shaving razors) they don’t actually develop a burr from shaving, therefore the strop just is keeping the blade uniform and polished.
Tbf he is trying to explain this to those 2 so he had to dim it down a bit to not have brian interrupt him with a falsehood he jumped to lol
Leather is used to remove the microbur after sharpening but I believe in this case it’s used almost like a honing rod in the kitchen. It just realigns the blade in between uses thus preventing you from having to constantly sharpen.
This man should do audiobooks
My hair isn't gerthy but it makes for it by being long... they say it's just as good.
He needs more knowledge first.
It also helps to remove burs from freshly sharpening your razor. It helps to straighten the edge after sharpening and cutting as well.
No thats a loaded strop. Its different and it is flat and backed with wood.this is unloaded and slack ti reset the microscopic edge that has became wobbly as the man describes
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367you just described what a burr is lol
@@rogerkidd6103 no a burr is the loose flap you wish to remove. When you sharpen the edge in aperfect world there would be no burr.. You definitely dont want an burrs on a razor. Hence the loaded strop to remove it. The leather unloaded slack strop resets the edge the edge its self.. Not a burr gets deformed by your har and becomes rippled on a microscopic level. The slack strop realigns it without removing any material. Burning steels do the same thing for knives and tools they are very hard smooth polished steel rods, in the past butcher used them along with a sharpening steel to burnish the edge so it lasted longer without any metal being removed. Butchers steels and loaded strops remove metal..
Burrs are a byproduct of sharpening before proper honing is performed.
Razors should never have any form odf a burr if you value your face
Dudes got that voice you could listen too all day haha.
No joke. That's the kind of voice you'd want to narrate books.
It’s like kneel on grass Tyson but not full of BS
That’s the real secret to being a great barber.
I haven’t gotten my hair cut in 7 years, but I’d stop by this guys shop for a shave and a slight trim.
even if he is wrong i agree
That little chuckle when he said hair has "girth" was definitely Jason. That was a Jason chuckle for sure.
Nah he just said mmm hmm
It's not a chuckle. He literally just said mhm
Projecting
Jason "Girth" Murphy
As a Jason I can concor
On the microscopic scale for a blade, straightening = sharpening = polishing. You polish the two surfaces that form the edge with abrasives of increasingly fine grit, making the edges meet in as straight and narrow a line as possible. In the process of this abrading, little burrs of metal will form on the edge. These can be removed before or during the next step up in polishing.
Leather is a good final step because it is tough but not hard, meaning it can catch and pull off burrs without also scratching the edge. Many enthusiasts also apply a paste of ultra-fine polish/abrasive to the leather, which makes it double as a cheap and more portable alternative to an ultra-fine whetstone.
Strops are for polishing the edge and thus removing micro burs. Those burs make the edge more jagged and can catch on hair as opposed to slicing it. This is true for any very sharp knife or blade. You sharpen it, that creates a bur if done properly, stroping it removes the bur and refines the edge.
If this man tried enough he could probably be a decent successor to James Earl Jones he just has that voice
Good voice indeed. Nowhere as deep or rich as James Earl Jones. That man is one of a kind.
Like James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman had a baby... wait!
his voice is like a delicious whiskey omg
It’s actually to remove burrs from the freshly sharpened blade. But perhaps it serves 2 purposes. I have my doubts though.
No, this is a slack unloaded strop not a backed polishing strop it is only for resetting tge edge in alignment, it will not remove a burr
It also cleans and polishes which makes for much smoother cuts
only if you use a paste.
@@adifferentangle7064 I use diamond grit spray on balsa wood prior to the leather strop.
It also polishes by itself
@@brooksjolley4669 Nope. Leather does not polish by itself.
This a weird way to explain it. Over time small pieces of the metal pull away from the blade and form what are called burrs. Essentially slivers of metal roll upp along the edge blocking its cutting potential. The strop doesn't straighten the blade so much as it tears those burrs away embedding them in the surface of the leather.
This man is the reason I am using a straight razor today.
I should probably get one, but I can also just use a pocket knife if it's sharp enough, right? 😂 Joking
@@Lemon_Sage9999No for sure you can sharpen a lot of different things to the point they can shave hair. A carpenter showed me his technique to sharpen a chisel and we got to a point that it started to shave my arm hairs!
It’s a truly satisfying thing to do, if you ever get the chance.
If it’s not taking hair off you didn’t do a good job sharpening tbh. Even an axe will take hairs off if done right. But depending on the use of the tool if you actually need it that sharp.
I mean yes, but it also polishes the blade. The whole point of a strop is to straighten and polish the edge, to make it more uniform and provide a better cutting interface. You can add abrasive but even just raw leather like this will have a polishing effect.
Not very much of one. It would take over 50 passes on bare leather to see any difference under a microscope, hundreds to have an actual effect.
Bare strops don't really polish, they deburr.
Man, I could listen to this dude narrating me to sleep for months
This has got to be one of the least competent "Professionals" they brought on, remember watching this episode and just being sad at the misinformation
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@fig8man You use a strop to deburr the blade after sharpening it, not to straighten a blade. When you sharpen a blade the material thats being removed will curl and cling to the edge and a strop brakes it off makeing the blade as sharp as it can be
Information on sharpening blades is convoluted and everyone thinks they get the science. There is a reason experts contradict each other and techniques seem to do the same thing but based on entirely different mechanisms.
@@DemonTheDestroyerI use soft pine to debur a blade. I strope to remove material. My 800 grit stone removes the bur from my file.
@@dee5298anything that isn't malleable and capable of conforming to the shape of the blade will form a bur. The soft pine can totally remove a bur and not create a new one, as it's soft enough to ever so slightly conform around the apex of the blade breaking the material off, this is very effective! But the 800 grit stone is incapable of wrapping around the tip of your blade. So while it can remove the bur present on one side, even with the softest touch it will still create a bur, while likely smaller than the original. This is because metal is malleable, even the hardest steel, and sharpening scrapes and pushes material in a similar to molding and scraping clay. The metal wants to stick to itself the same way clay does, the reason metal doesn't is due to oxidization, but the sharpening process can move some of the metal without introducing oxygen. This forms a bur with an attachment point just over the apex of the blade meaning anything not flexible enough to reach far and tight enough around that apex will without a doubt leave a bur. Although not all burs are created equal and they can be small enough to not matter much or wear away at first use. So you are right and wrong. You definitely still have a bur on your stuff after using a stone but it's practical enough to use and all the theoretical ways to perfect a blade is simply an art not something practical in the working man's life. Unless you happen to have the one career where it can matter which is being a barber, which is arguably an artisan career, capable of being taken to heights considered to be an art.
"Many people think a strop is used to sharpen the blade, but the reason he's actually using the strop is to sharpen the blade"
I also use a straight razor for shaving German steel. I found it to be one of the best.
That's patently *not* what a strop is for. At all.
tis for removing the micro burr to give it that flapless edge
@@jacobcronk1844its for both thin degree edges bend out and back in easily
I thought it was to remove any burrs
It's is, he's wording it weirdly.
Kinda, hes using burr and rolled edge to mean the same thing, which it is in this case, but with tools theres a difference. You can do this with a knife too if you get a rolled edge and itll be the same
Yeah that what he means. Hair doesn’t warp a blade lol.
@@havoc1zero.....hair is pretty strong, yes it does warp thin narrow blades
@@solomonheppner it doesn’t warp the blade. It damages the edge of the blade. Far different.
Professional woodworker, Furniture maker, and historic restoration carver here. A leather strop doesn’t keep the blade straight. It’s to minimize burrs that have formed in the sharpening process. After you sharpen a blade, chisel or gouge there’s micro metallic burrs that form. The strop takes away the burrs leaving a honed edge for smooth and flawless cutting. And typically with a properly sharpened edge of a cutting tool, the strop is in constant use. It is normal for after using a sharp edge to begin to dull, but not actually dull the true edge. What happens is hair, wood fibers, or anything you’re cutting will create burrs from use and the strop can remove them and get back to a smooth cut as before. So if your blade is sharp, it’ll cut. The strop just keep it cutting for s longer period of time before needing to be sharpened.
I could listen to that guy read ingredients. What a smooth and soothing voice
Like an old master enlightening us with ancient lore.
I remember when I was a kid, I would pretend to sharpen my uncle's razor with a leather belt...
Really dont know precisely how you mean that because i am little tipsy, but leather belts can be used for "honing", also cardboard can be used the same
Uhhh. Straightening the edge is sharpening the blade. That's literally what you are doing when sharpening with a stone etc... redefining the edge to make it. "Sharper". A strop just makes Mico adjustments and doesnt remove as much material as a stone does. The strop also removes burrs and helps reduce micro pitting on the razors edge which is one of the leading causes of razor burn. Either way.. its "sharpening" the razor.
I feel like they are trying to make this incredibly irrelevant differentiation to try and sound cool or something.
@Wungus_Bill That's what was always the thought. Belive it or not, stropping does infact remove small portions of material. There was a metallurgist that tested it under a microscope and proved that even the slight bend does remove tiny bits of metal. They more ya know eh?
I could listen to that man talk about anything. What a voice.
This guy sounds like a dad explaining things to a group of kids, he should be narrating a science show
So like honing a knife. Got it. 👍🏾
No. Like stropping a knife
Lmfao this comment section is golden.
"He didn't list my word for word description on the use of a strop, he is wrong!"
Best part, you're all right and wrong at the same time.
A strop, leather strop, razor strop, are multipurpose tools with many different uses and applications like honing, grinding, polishing, sharpening, etc
I guess everyone here is a barber or shaves with a straight razor regularly 😂😅
You seem to confuse knowing how to use something with knowing exactly how it achieves what it does.
Use of a hone or grindstone to achieve a narrow wedge cross section ultimately is unable to provide a sharp edge, because the very thinnest part of the edge, as grinding progresses, becomes so flexible it will not stand up to the grinding pressure. This leaves a fin projecting past the 'virtual sharp' intersection of the flat planes of the wedge. The knife blade gets thinner as it approaches this "burr", but the burr takes the form of a reverse wedge: it gets slightly thicker again before ending abruptly.
To remove it, the burr must be bent one way then the other, repeatedly, until it breaks at the thin neck which was acting as a flexible hinge.
This can be done with the palm of the hand, but it is more safely and conveniently and consistently done with a leather strop.
In most English speaking nations, "straightening" the edge would not qualify as any sort of explanation for this process.
@Wungus_Bill Where I come from, honing uses a hone, not a strop. Honing with a resilient (eg leather) surface impregnated with abrasive cannot produce flat geometry, it will be curved. So if you are correct, the explanation remains incoherent
@@Wungus_Bill Whoosh !
@@Gottenhimfella🤡
Man sounds like he earned his PhD in barbershop physics
It is to hone the blade to be technically correct. Definition: Honing, smooth and sharpen (a blade). As others suggested, it refines the blade. Making it smoother, better.
It is to sharpen the edge by removing very small amounts of metal from the edge. Although in uses like this you'd mostly be removing build ups of residue from the edge, since the difference in the hardness of steel vs hair is so great that you'd need to shave for years in order to actually dull a razor blade.
Straightening the edge of a blade is literally the definition of sharpening
He’s like Neil Degrasse Tyson but he lets other people talk, as well, and people actually wanna hear him. Hahah
Take a shot for every “actually” lol
All I see is the device of my father's desire to correct my childhood misadventures.
That lil laugh when he says girth 😂
As a bladesmith, the strop is actually meant to “break the burr” from sharpening. With some fine grit compound, it will technically sharpen it, but really it’s just getting the burr on the edge to break.
This is just like the rods they use to sharpen kitchen knives. The rod maintains the edge, but the knife still needs to be actually sharpened every day.
Bro just described sharpening with extra steps
Dude was right in the most wrong way lmao
Kids this is what being dead wrong looks like 😂
I’d trust this man with every haircut I need for 3 generations
No, it is to deburr a sharpened edge on a microscopic level. And it’s called a strap because any saddle strap of leather will do the same.
straightening a cutting edge is called burnishing and chefs use either a hardened steel or ceramic rod to unfold, if you will, an unilinear micro-bevel… the leather strop removes the finest of burrs of your micro bevel from sharpening, ie, polishing/ revealing the sharpest edge possible if prior sharpening/shaping was done correctly 👍🏻
Its to remove the bur created from sharpening, kinda like how you bend tie wire back and forth and it snaps, the same thing happens when you strop, thats why you use it back and forth instead of the normal 1 side sharpening
I'm relieved to find someone on here who actually knows how a strop actually works.
Bro for some reason this man's voice with music seems so inspirational, even tho it's not lol
That simple addition to your kit helps tremendously.
I so enjoy seeing classic equipment and methods being brought into modern day usage.
I know someone else said this but i figured id be more exact. The strop is designed to fold the burs on the blade of the knife back and away from the edge. When you sharpen a knife it creates very small burs. Under a microscope its easy to see. Metal is cubic shaped and the last thing you want is a super small razor sharp cube edge directed towards the blade end. Your blade would look like a sideways w and instead of cutting hair it would grab and rip hair, also doing the same thing to your skin. That bur on a blade can give the blade itself a feeling of being dull or because of how it cuts it can actually dull the blade faster meaning you have to sharpen it more.
I’ve never looked at someone and known they were a gentleman so quickly, that man must be the chillest dude
Well... at least my hair has girth.
This man makes me feel comforted for some reason.
Is that "if you build it they will come" Darth Vader voice guy
His Voice is so calming.../ strop..it sharpens and straightens
Finally, an answer to the cartoons i watched in my childhood around Bugs Bunny and Tom&Jerry time.
That dude needs to start narrating for documentaries and books. Great voice.
I now posses more knowledge that will almost certainly be useless to me outside of trivia shows. I love it.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that bungee gum has the properties of rubber and gum
They found that hair can damage steel, that's how tough your hair is, it can dent steel, it can even tear out microscopic pieces of the edge
This guys voice in my ears is like cool aloe on a mild sunburn.
A strop polishes the cutting edge. It also will remove the burr after using a stone.
It is used in conjunction with polishing compound.
I use a Strop every day to hone my edges.
Sharpen once.
Hone forever .
Straighten the blade . . . Bwahahaha
His 9 o’clock shadow bends steel . . . Bwahahaha
he took I'm going to get this straight to a literal level.
"keeping the edge straight" is literally what sharpening is
Fun fact, at least one study found that human hair is comparable to the same density and material strength as a copper wire of the same gauge. This is why face shaving blades can dull so much faster than when you just shave off the finer hairs on your body.
He has a radio voice. Hope he can read well. Hope he get voice over roles.
This dude is oozing with wisdom just listen to that voice
Damn that voice is the new Vader.
Hm, makes sense. Cooks have a similar tool for the same purpose.
A honing steel is used to realign the edge of a knife.
The more accurate way of describing this would be to say that the edge is effectively made of tiny metal bristles called burs, these metal burs bend to either side when met with resistance and the misalignment of the burs makes the blade lose its effectiveness. Stropping aligns all of these burrs to keep the blade as effective as possible
I didn't know Mr McDowell was barbering now 😂
I can't believe he said this with a _straight face_
That's what literally sharpening means. Straightening the edge results in sharpening 💀
I was convinced it was Neil degrasse Tyson speaking for half the video
Haha. No!😂
It's for deburring the edge. Basic metallurgy will tell you the steel will never go into plastic deformation and be bent. And a flimsy piece of leather will definitely not bend it back into shape again.
Damn he should read for a audio book. Such a smooth voice.
Dayum son i can bend metal with a strop? i see that as an absolute win
There's nothing like hearing someone who know's their stuff talk about it
They are called burrs, metal imperfections from damage to metal. Leather is basically an ultra fine grit sandpaper and you're basically using to scrape off the burrs that form from cutting hair.
Strong Captain Holt vibe!
"Many people think that strop is used to sharpen the blade, but *proceeds to explain how it is used to sharpen the blade*."
It's more about removing the burr that is left on the edge of a blade as it's being sharpened. Strops are not just used on straight razors, but to maintain the edge of many knifes.
Dude sounds like Neil Degrasse Tyson
It's actually to re-hone the blade inbetween customers. To get a blade sharp enough to shave, a blade needs to be polished to a mirror image. The strop also takes the burr off the blade after final polish unless you use a special method using a steel rule and 16000 or higher grit Shapton glass
Strops are used when sharpening any blade as a final polish to the edge to make sure the bur is completely removed. Has absolutely nothing to do with "straightening the blade" as if that were even possible from backwards passes on a piece of leather.
Tell me you don't know about knives without telling me you don't know about knives
I will bet you could extend the life of 'Safety Razors" the same way.
Strop it, you’re making me blush! 😂
The other main use was punishing naughty children.
I thought he only knew about baseball. Guess he's a barber now
Those hands look like they have never seen honest work
Did anyone else hear the "huhhuh" after he said your hair has girth
That’s wrong it’s to debur the blade after sharpening. Sharpening is what determines if the edge of the blade is straight or not.
This man’s voice reminds me of uncle phil’s voice
Chief Raymond Holt in real life
For people who haven't held or seen a real straight razor it isn't like a knife. It's like a paper thin sheet of razor sharp high carbon steel. It's literally thinner than printer paper
Technically, it is sharpening the edge, it's just not removing material. You sharpen to grind the correct edge into the metal, then you hone to remove the bur and straighten both sides, and the strop is actually to polish both sides of the edge so that it reduces friction and becomes the sharpest it possibly can.
We need more videos of this man explaining things!
Neil Degrasse Tyson in 15 years