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The only way I can understand this discussion as consequential at all is to assume we're talking about a "Y-edge," and whether it exists.

Otherwise, it's just nomenclature. It'd be like a having...

I didn't know that; perhaps you're right.

But if a plain leather strop is indeed abrading steel, it would seem to be doing it so subtly and infinitesimally that it can't possibly be the...

I'm a little confused by this thread, but that may have to do with my lack of expert knowledge.

I always thought the traditional explanation of plain stropping is that it smooths the edge, in...