James N. P. O’Brien, co-founder and president of ShaveFace, a Nashville, Tenn.-based company that makes shaving strops for disposable razors. When a friend told O’Brien that disposable blades could be ...

LINDEN, Texas-The practice of "stropping" doesn't occur often anymore. But, it used to be an activity that a barber did every weekday and sometimes on Sunday before church. A barber strops the ...

Pictured here is a circa 1937 Stropone razor sharpener. The company’s name, Stropone Inc., is a play on the word strop, or stropper, which was a strip of leather used for sharpening straight razors.