Thread: After honing stropping routine?

Coming off the hone, my first step is to carefully wipe the blade. This is followed by 50 strokes on a lightly oiled newspaper strop. This helps to remove any remaining grit, steel, or edge foil in order to prevent their transfer to my leather strop.

I have one strop dedicated to being the post honing strop. It is cleaned far more frequently than any of my other strops.