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10-26-2011, 07:36 AM #1Still Learning
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stropping before using a finishing stone for touch ups
how many people strop before going to a finishing stone for a touch up? how many people shave, find the edge is dulling, and go straight to the hone?
it seems to me that it would help some, but i dont always strop before using a finisher on an edge that has been shaved with. should i?
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10-26-2011, 07:46 AM #2Norton convert
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If the blade needs a touch-up, stropping before touching it up makes no sense. So yeah, straight to the hone.
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10-26-2011, 10:47 AM #3Predictably Unpredictiable
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Sometimes you don't need a hone, just a good stropping. I always go to the strop last, before shaving.
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10-26-2011, 03:58 PM #4Poor Fit
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Stone first...strop last.
And sometimes just a touch up on the CroOx strop if I catch it soon enough.
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10-26-2011, 04:21 PM #5Senior Member
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The strop to finisher actually makes some sense when you think about what's going on. The strop is realigning the edge; I don't know if all finishers do that or if they simply remove and polish the edge. When you take a misaligned blade to a hone, does it realign the edge first? Or, does it just begin to remove everything that isn't aligned with the bevel?
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10-26-2011, 04:36 PM #6Still Learning
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that was my thought, would you first get a ragged edge, before you honed even more on a slow (relatively) finisher..
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