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It's all true, and thanks for the good advice! But it's also true that beginners tend to start out like me, with a strop which is narrower than 3" because such narrower strops are marketed to the...

Thanks. I wasn't so much concerned that my blade doesn't maintain full edge-contact with my strop so much as that I have had a hard time maintaining even contact with the part that is touching the...

Thanks! :)

Well thanks, but I do worry enough on all those things you mentioned that it's sort of distracting me from my whole life right now. They do make beginner's strops kinda narrow, which is why you...

I understood at the beginning that if your strop width is narrower than the length of your blade, then some sort of compensatory pattern (such as the popular X-pattern) is necessary to keep a...