Does anyone know much about an L.E. Larson "Blade Stropper" device?
I got one some months back in a box of stuff, and I just put it aside because I was really looking at the Gillette Slim in the box. Every once in a while would run across it, but until today I've never looked at it close enough with glasses on to actually read that it is for stropping. I thought it was some ancient shavette handle.
Well, to make a long story short, I was in the beauty supply store yesterday getting some Barbacide, and I noticed the Personna "hair shaping" blades. Then my (nim|fee)ble mind said, "Those blades fit that shavette handle thingy; buy them."
Well, Saturday and Sunday are my straight shaving days, and I figured this was a "straightish" kind of thingy, so I loaded up a blade in the clamp and went to town this morning.
Once I got all the weepers stopped bleeding I finally read the side of it, and discovered it is for stropping blades, not a shaving handle.
So now I'm wondering to myself, what the devil kind of blade would you strop in this thing? It seems a DE blade would be next to impossible to position correctly for repeated stropping. An GEMS SE blade would position about the same as this SE "hair shaping" blade I put in it this morning. Certainly nothing with a bevel and a spine goes in it.
So, what did it do when it as all the rage?
I got one some months back in a box of stuff, and I just put it aside because I was really looking at the Gillette Slim in the box. Every once in a while would run across it, but until today I've never looked at it close enough with glasses on to actually read that it is for stropping. I thought it was some ancient shavette handle.
Well, to make a long story short, I was in the beauty supply store yesterday getting some Barbacide, and I noticed the Personna "hair shaping" blades. Then my (nim|fee)ble mind said, "Those blades fit that shavette handle thingy; buy them."
Well, Saturday and Sunday are my straight shaving days, and I figured this was a "straightish" kind of thingy, so I loaded up a blade in the clamp and went to town this morning.
Once I got all the weepers stopped bleeding I finally read the side of it, and discovered it is for stropping blades, not a shaving handle.
So now I'm wondering to myself, what the devil kind of blade would you strop in this thing? It seems a DE blade would be next to impossible to position correctly for repeated stropping. An GEMS SE blade would position about the same as this SE "hair shaping" blade I put in it this morning. Certainly nothing with a bevel and a spine goes in it.
So, what did it do when it as all the rage?
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