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Last year I found a large bench strop in an antique shop. While wider than we are discussing here it too was convex. It was leather over felt with about an 1/8" crown. It was a factory made strop...

Alan,
I'm with you on this one. There is a reason for the width and not just to conserve materials. I do suspect that they looked at the narrowest width that was effective but doubt they sacrificed...

I was thinking about this one and am sure we may have discussed it in the past but here goes again.

Wide hones and straight passes won't have this issue as it relates to using an X pattern and the...