Thread: Strokes of the Pyramid.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

Pyramid honing guide - Straight Razor Place Library

Well, we got 25,15, 5,3, and one! I interpret the numbers as laps. I never get by with that on most vintage ones, however!
I AM pretty light-handed, though.
Mebbe Lynn will come along? Never read that before. I learned off his DVD long ago and forget what I saw!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Well, we got 25,15, 5,3, and one! I interpret the numbers as laps. I never get by with that on most vintage ones, however!
I AM pretty light-handed, though.
Mebbe Lynn will come along? Never read that before. I learned off his DVD long ago and forget what I saw!

I like to call them "round trips". I think that is clear to most anyone ? I.E. ......... 1 lap = one round trip or 1 pass each way ..........

To me, a stroke in honing or stropping has come to mean what Jimmy calls a "round trip" because you are trying to give equal treatment to both sides of the razor blade. Yes, that was confusing to me as a beginner also. OTH it does not take a lot to confuse this old fart.

Bob

I'm hoping for Lynn to jump in, but to me a stroke, a lap and a round trip are the same. Like a stroke in golf....backswing to follow through is a stroke. I can also think of a less polite example.

What have I done.... such a noob move

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

What have I done.... such a noob move

Nothing that can't be undone. Live and learn as they say.

Bob

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

What have I done.... such a noob move

Some people are more literal than others. A stroke in most instances would be considered a singular movement and that is how you took it. As said before it is a common mistake due to poor semantics. Also as already said, it is easily fixed.

Steel removal has to be equal on both sides of the edge for the razor to function properly. So pass/stroke or lap means the same. Pass is a lot less intuitive, and lap is more descriptive as to what it means.
I use pass almost all of the time when I talk about honing/stropping

All due respect to those who hone "Pyramid" and all...

But, it just seemed so much easier(and was/is) to do the monkey see monkey do method, and imitate a master. Thank you, internet!

Throw the "Pyramid" method away when talking to honing novices, I say.

Originally Posted by Siguy

All due respect to those who hone "Pyramid" and all...

But, it just seemed so much easier(and was/is) to do the monkey see monkey do method, and imitate a master. Thank you, internet!

Throw the "Pyramid" method away when talking to honing novices, I say.

You now have the floor!