Quote Originally Posted by Sticky View Post
About 30-40 years ago I knew a barber who did his last 2 laps on his finish hone with edge trailing, just like he stropped. I asked why and he said he was taught that method by another barber.

His razors were always very sharp.
Even on the coticules, with which I've had a harder time getting the sharpness, the edge-trailing stroke seems to give it all I could ask for. HHT went from performing at 1/2" from point of hold to 3/4". One of the edges, as mentioned, didn't last the whole shave, so it appears the elusive 'over honing' was found. 'Tried another Swedish blade earlier today with that technique on a very fast (on water) LPB coticule. The smoothness was heavenly & the sharpness was all you could ask for. 'Don't know why. It seems to be less sensitive to an imperfect stroke also. It continues to surprise me.