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YouTube - Straight Razor Honing on a Brick (This is a joke)

Yes the stropping was not very, erm... technical shall we say. But just as butchers can get good cutting edges on their knives with techniques that really shouldn't work, I bet there are some...

What do you think of this guy's honing technique? At the start of each stroke he does a circular swipe. I thought at first he was doing this to prevent a burr, but now I guess it's more likely he is...