Quote Originally Posted by GelfLover View Post
I do have a question about stropping or learning to strop. I have read that slow stropping does nothing and that you need speed to make it affective. I am finding it hard to learn the action correctly unless I do it slowly will this create any problems if I do it that way?
Welcome to SRP.

It has been suggested that beginners should use a blunt object loosely resembling the shape of a razor (read: a butter knife) to learn the basic mechanical skills. I find that advice sound, and it would have spared me the extra cost of a second strop.