Thread: Honing Problem

This has been posted on quite a few times and I believe there are avi's of people doing the stropping motion. I will brief it for you though:

Lay the razor lightly on the strop at the hand end with the spine of the razor facing up the strop. Now move the razor slowly and with light pressure up the strop to the hanging end. 3/4's of the way up the stroke think of the turn. This is done by starting to lift the cutting edge off the strop but maintaining full contact with the spine on the strop. 7/8's of the way you should have the razor so the spine is is on the strop and the cutting edge is 90 degrees to the strop, this is when you will start the return stroke back to the hand end of the strop. With the razor in the 7/8 position you start to pull the razor back towards yourself while at the same time lowering the cutting edge back to the strop surface and maintaining full contact with the spine on the strop.
You repeat this at each 3/4 mark on the stropping stroke. Try not to use all the strop surface while you are learning but keep to a comfortable stroke length that allows a margin for error at either end. Go slow and steady and concentrate on what you are doing and don't be fooled into speeding up till it feels fluid and "right". Lets say; count (1..2..make the turn 3) (4...5...make the turn 6)...etc.

Hope that helps

PuFF