Thread: drag

Are you using the pasted strop hanging or backed by a hard smooth surface?

its a paddle strop

There are probably three things that could be wrong:

1. You have not honed it enough to re-establish the edge.
2. You have stropped too much and made a wire edge that needs to be removed.
3. The edge has become too rounded to restore easily with a pasted strop and you would be better of going back to the stones.

If I had this same situation I would:

1. drag the edge WITHOUT ANY PRESSURE across a folded piece of newspaper, on the fold, a couple of times to make sure any wire edge that was there is removed.
2. Start stropping on the crox side 20 times each side pasted strop and do a HHT (Ilike HHT's, they are very accurate for me). I would continue to strop in rounds of 20 and retest using HHT up to as total of 100 strokes. If the razor was not getting sharper and still not passing HHT, I would go to the stones and start from scratch.

If it does start to pass the HHT and is getting sharper I usually keep going until it passes an HHT with the folicle hanging in not out. This is much sharper than trying to cut the folicle end off.

i dont have a hone m8,thats why i am asking which one to get lol

Originally Posted by leadpig

i dont have a hone m8,thats why i am asking which one to get lol

If you are new to honing you may want to send it off to be honed professionally. Learning to hone takes some time (as I am finding out the hard way). If you must there is a whole forum here focusing on honing as well as the library. The general consensus is that a Norton 4k/8k is a good all around stone that is good for beginners and experts. You may also want to get a 1k grit to set the bevel but it can be done of a 4k it just takes longer.