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Stropping is essential to maintaining an excellent edge. If one gets better results straight off the stones, it's time to improve one's stropping technique and/or one's strop.[/QUOTE]

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There are a couple guys like shaving straight off the stones, but I noticed that the guys who are some of the better honing fellows who charge for a service that sends out blades ready to shave ,...

If your stropping is good more doesn't hurt, but if you like 10-15 then that's what you do, I've found that ever since my stropping is good I get a much smoother shave from 40-50 laps, yes it doesn't...