OK, another question for the group - how do you all deal with a decorative spine? I recently honed and stropped a razor that has a pattern etched on the spine, and I observed a couple of things. First, on a pasted strop, the pattern did a great job of scooping up some of the paste on the strop. Second, on the plain strop, the razor just glided - the reduced surface area due to the etching dropped the friction dramatically. This razor just has a simple diamond pattern, nothing like some of the dramatic stuff on the customs I've seen about. I can't even imaging how some of those would scar my strop.
Thanks, everyone.
- tim
Thanks, everyone.
- tim