The feel of the razor on the hone distinctly changes as the razor approaches shaving sharp. The exact nature of the change is hard to describe, but the shapton gets kind of "sticky" as the razor approaches shaving sharp, and the translucent arkansas goes from a smooth sliding feel to more of a scraping feel.Quote:
Originally Posted by icecow
You can do that if you want. I've got two pasted hanging strops, one of them is a two-sided leather strop with flexcut gold on one side and 11k boron carbide on the other, and the other strop is a standard hanging strop with chromium oxide on the leather side only.Quote:
Originally Posted by icecow
I don't really use my hanging strops on my razors very much, they're mostly for my knives.