While I was cleaning out my home office, I found an old DE hone. Looking on the back of the package where the instructions are, it tells you to palm strop the blades after using the hone. I guess this hone was around the WWII era.
A little history on palm stropping DE blades
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Very nice find, especially since it was something you already owned and had forgotten about.
Any idea about the history of it? Did it belong to your father or grandfather?
Any idea about the history of it? Did it belong to your father or grandfather?
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No, it was an Ebay find many years ago.
Great bit of history. Thanks for posting.
The controversy rages on! Most other blades seem to discourage palm stropping ...
The controversy rages on! Most other blades seem to discourage palm stropping ...
Was the coating or something of blades different from what it is now? I mean, what made stropping fine back then, whereas wiping is such a heinous offense today?
That is cool. I like the brand name. In those days, even saving the miniscule amount of steel in a razor blade was patriotic and a contribution to the war effort. I wish that our country could be so unified today.
I don't know. Maybe palm stropping works better on carbon steel blades than on stainless steel.
My attitude to palm-stropping is: can't hurt, might help. I do it when I think of it. It does seem to have a marginal smoothing effect, especially with a devette.
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