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03-26-2014, 01:25 AM #16
Yeah, normal razors have 2.75" long edge, so that's slightly more than a 2.5" wide strop.
You draw the razor across the strop at a slight angle, not completely parallel to its length, and the whole edge gets in contact with the leather.
It's not a big deal at all, I'm not sure why it's sometimes made into some kind of a big deal.
Can you draw a straight-ish line on a sheet of paper? How much more difficult it is to draw it parallel to one of the paper's borders, compared to at a bit of an angle to it? Stropping is the same.
BTW the regular old european strops are 1.5" to 2" - my grandfather used such.