Thread: Looking to understand stropping

Thank you Nifty.
I will add your knowledge to my repository of important facts and will keep them at hand once the King stone sent by Aerdvaark finally arrives. I'm pretty sure part of why the shave is still not 100% comfortable is because the bevel is still not perfectly made, but I've learned a lot in the last month.
It's been a long and frustrating road (8 years with an unusable SR) but with the current state of the blade and the new gear, I feel confident that I can finally make the razor a 100% shave ready razor.

When stropping think about smoothing a wrinkle from the edge of crumpled aluminum
foil or wet paper

Awesome advise

As example, if the spine is travelling away from you the pressure would not be straight down on the strop but into the strop. I hope this makes sense if not I will gladly do my best to get across what I mean.

I think it does. I imagine it's basically to apply enough pressure in order to make sure the edge lays flat against the leather without risking a blade folding.