Originally Posted by
LarryAndro
I don't think stropping smiling blades is much harder than stropping perfectly straight blades. No matter the type edge, in my opinion, we should vary our stropping pattern. Strop up and down, diagonally in Xs, strop with the tip touching going up and down and slowly move in stropping until the heel is touching during the strokes.
Vary and change and adjust your stropping pattern during every strop session. Otherwise, you will end up with a razor that is sharp here and dull there.
The same variance is needed for straight edges and smiling edges. And, that is why I don't think it is much more difficult keeping smiling edges well stropped.