I read some people have strops just for different grit pastes.

Somehow touching up the edge of a straight razor with pasted strops makes more sense to me than using a hone.

First question. If I used pasted strops for the fine honing, do I still need to own a fine hone? or just a coarser hone? or a hone at all?

Second question. What's the general consensous of what is better practice: pasted strops, or hones.

strops and hones. strops and hones.


For your information, I have a few strops being sent to me right now and an old straight razor looks to be on the way as well.




I'm considering getting a few more strops and using pastes instead of a bunch of hones, but I really don't know what I need.


Another question, how many strops do I need for pasting? 2?


Thanks for reading.