The 5 minute razor check that saved me a $40 blade last week
A guy who's been cutting 30 years in Bakersfield showed me to strop my clippers on a piece of denim after every fade, not just at the end of the day. I've been doing it for a week now and my blades are running cooler and cutting cleaner. Anyone else strop mid-day or am I late to this?
That denim strop thing got me laughing because I've been tossing blades that probably had life left in them for years. My cheap self has been buying new blades every couple weeks when a piece of old jeans could've kept them going. Tried the mid day strop yesterday on a hot afternoon and the blade did feel cooler on the second head. The real test is whether I stop burning that back of the neck line on my kid's hair, and so far it's looking better.