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That guy who claims he can go a year without honing his razor says he holds his strop pretty tight :w

all kidding aside, I'm sure you're right. for me, right now, I'm going to try the tight strop...

I saw that video with the barber's floppy strop, which flies in the face of what nearly every long time straight razor user on this forum suggests. I don't know what to do with that video, except...

I discovered that there is a place for pressure on a strop, when regular stropping just won't cut it--that pressure should only be used when the strop is held tight, and there is no deflection. And...

I too have a quality strop with seatbelt-like linen, maybe even rougher. I cringe any time I put a hollow grind on it. It makes me wonder how all these people who make such great strops can think so...

I just read 20 pages or so of that thread, and have a newfound respect for the moderators here who keep threads on-topic. And it appears that I've been stropping inadequately this past year :cry:

Thanks. I don't like ruining a razor's edge in the name of experimentation usually, but then I don't learn all the intricacies, and end up being very conservative in honing and stropping technique,...

[QUOTE=AFDavis11;906875]I have a few strategies I follow when stropping, just thought I'd share and see if anyone else does anything similar.

2) The 'Against the Grain" Attack blade

Taut strop...