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Steve, being comfortable with the stropping action is a good part of the problem solved. Toe leading or heal leading I think makes no diff when the action in both directions is uniform and...

I get you now Scott
You are doing heal leading but gradually it goes to toe leading and in doing so it sets the heal leading angle to the strop for the start of the next stroke. Simple, I can see...

With practice I can see myself getting the hang of toe forward at speed. I use toe forward for my pasted strops but I always do it slower than on the leather/linen. This is mainy due to the slight...

Looks about right Scott

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LOL Scott, I just went and tried toe leading with an arc, nearly slashed my strop up :)
So...Do what feels right seems to be the recomendation here :tu

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Those pictures on the pdf barber text seem to show heal leading to me and Xpattern stropping. I can't see it being interpreted any other way.
I think the barber you picked your technique up off may...

Is there a reason behind using a toe leading action? Toe leading on my pasted strops is so I follow the hone angle, is this why you strop that way?

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So you strop toe leading Scott. Do you have to pay close attention when stropping a full hollow? I ask this because I find if I go toe leading I tend to put more weight on at the start of the stroke....

I think that when you strop on a hanging strop there is a natural tendancy (on my part at least) to start at the handle end with slightly more bias to the heal then as I proceed the bias graduates to...