Thread: A Bad Beginner

With regards to your stropping question, the blade should be flat on the strop, 'mostly flat' sounds a bit dodgy at the best of times. Stropping is useless if you are just running the spine up and down the strop with out the blade contacting leather, and you stand to roll the edge if the spine is sitting high of the leather.
The stropping action should be smooth and flowing with the roll over the spine starting before the stroke is finished. That way the edge is off the leather if and when you do stop to complete the roll over.


Hope that helps for that part of your question.


Mick