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Thanx! you are in a good mood! That is really cool. Stay tuned, as soon I'm thinking about posting "Some thoughts on honing" . . .

Bigspendur- Excellent points!

I'm a little in a hurry so I'll have to come back and re-read and think about this stuff a little more but this morning proved some pretty dramatic results

I...

The more I think about it the idea of thumbnail testing to increase the time between honings is probably pretty silly, yet I'll continue with a short experiment.

I think the Bigspender's...

I don't really know, I'm a little lost. I can see now why guys who have a rolled edge can still shave with it, that has eluded me for a long time. I thought, rolled=unusable. Feathering may be a...

OK, I just conducted some initial shave tests. It does appear that running the blade on the thumbnail test after high grit and too heavy stropping does in fact improve the edge. Additionally, it...

Well I'm not sure what it means but I can conduct the thumbnail test and see no reduction in draw, so I may very effectively be disproving my own theory (which is ok). But, I'm not sure that the...

I believe stropping is pretty easy, but like honing, I can't see whats going on. I think the idea is to apply a little bit of pressure to align the edge and build out the fin slightly to create two...