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    jeweller's rouge (iron(III) oxide). Stropping is traditionally associated with straight razors used for shaving, as these are the thinnest blades in...
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    Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down—to the level of the skin or otherwise. Shaving...
    32 KB (3,785 words) - 00:34, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knife sharpening
    applications. For example, a straight razor used for shaving is stropped before each use, and may be stropped part-way through use, while it will be fine sharpened...
    19 KB (2,442 words) - 21:02, 14 November 2024
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    Straight razors require considerable skill to hone and strop, and require more care during shaving. Straight razor design and use was once a major portion...
    69 KB (8,212 words) - 01:20, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Safety razor
    A safety razor is a shaving implement with a protective device positioned between the edge of the blade and the skin. The initial purpose of these protective...
    27 KB (2,959 words) - 07:22, 12 November 2024
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    Razor (category Shaving implements)
    bladed tool primarily used in the removal of body hair through the act of shaving. Kinds of razors include straight razors, safety razors, disposable razors...
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  • provide their own shaving kit, and Gillette's compact kit with disposable blades outsold competitors whose razors required stropping. Gillette marketed...
    111 KB (10,516 words) - 22:32, 17 August 2024
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    parer or topper) is a tool for sharpening a pencil's writing point by shaving away its worn surface. Pencil sharpeners may be operated manually or by...
    20 KB (2,312 words) - 13:43, 13 November 2024
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    spray Hair tonic Hair wax Razor strop Shave brush Shaving oil Straight razor Station mat Mustache wax Shaving soap or Shaving cream The market for barber...
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  • Thumbnail for Rolls Razor
    sophisticated safety-razor which promoted with the slogan "The razor that is stropped and honed in its case". The case was a rigid rectangular frame enclosed...
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    Burma-Shave (category Shaving cream brands)
    reference to the "H" joke: Good to the last strop Covers a multitude of chins Takes the "H" out of shaving The war years found the company recycling a...
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  • Thumbnail for King C. Gillette
    shaved with straight razors that needed sharpening every day using a leather strop. As existing, relatively expensive razor blades dulled quickly and needed...
    23 KB (2,310 words) - 04:53, 14 November 2024
  • March 2005. (preprint available as "Sharpening Occam's Razor on a Bayesian Strop"). James, Gareth; et al. (2013). An Introduction to Statistical Learning...
    93 KB (10,781 words) - 00:14, 3 November 2024
  • production of razor strops, to sharpen razors used in shaving. With the advent of the safety razor in 1912, however, the need for razor strops waned, and the...
    28 KB (2,246 words) - 20:47, 12 September 2024
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    characteristic of straight razors, used for shaving, and yields a very sharp but weak edge, which requires stropping for maintenance. Flat grind: The blade...
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  • Thiers Issard (category Shaving)
    waterstone. Finally the cutting edge is finished on a two-sided leather strop using a special paste on one side and natural oils from the human hand on...
    18 KB (2,118 words) - 23:34, 22 August 2024
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    then be lifted to the surface with floating sheerlegs attached to nylon strops passing under the hull and transferred to a cradle. It was also decided...
    120 KB (16,366 words) - 19:19, 1 November 2024
  • allowed as test blades. Once the test begins, no work, not even light stropping, may be done to the test blade. The test blade is used to cut a free-hanging...
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  • Thumbnail for March of the Dungarees
    "necessities of life" including tobacco, pipes, cigarettes, matches, shaving soap and razor strops. The march from Allora travelled north through Spring Creek...
    51 KB (5,356 words) - 18:55, 10 July 2024