Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
want to really read about stropping ???

Here is info from all kinds of people with plenty of Vids and opinion to steer you along

http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...st-2012-a.html
An interesting experiment to get the feel of stropping uses a roll of newspaper.
Make a roll from a SINGLE sheet of newspaper.
Too much pressure stroping and the roll will collapse.
The roll is narrow so start at the heel end of the razor and stroke so the contact point with the roll
ends up at the toe at the end. Lift the edge but not the spine from the roll. Edge up and over then after
sliding the spine to place the heel in position bring the edge down. Stroke in the opposite direction.
This is an X stroke, a bit extreme but still an X stroke.
If you get the timing wrong you slice a bit of yesterday's paper and not a new strop.

Nice and slow (deliberate). The spine stays in contact.

The flip is done with the thumb and first finger more than the arm or wrist.
Watch the videos for this bit.

You can even practice with a butter knife at first.