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Also there is a natural tendency to use more pressure on the away stroke without realizing it, because your thumb can produce so much torque on the shank without muscle involvement.

Not true. While draw is correlated with sharpness it is neither necessary nor sufficient for sharpness. Some leathers and other common stropping materials have very little draw, yet produce great...

I believe that there are a couple of contributing factors to this. One is that stropping seems so easy to do. Another is that the volume of discussion of hones and honing vs the lesser level of...