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Indeed. I also found stropping between hones is good stuff. I think I have Euclid to thank for that suggestion. But I usually get too hone happy and move on to the next rock before I remember.

Stones, pastes, and films are for the edge. The strop is for your skin.

There's a difference between damage (unwanted change) and what stropping (wanted change) does. We want the weak metal flakes...

My cell phone wouldn't play it either. Android, Galaxy S5. Which is weird, but it is what it is. Had to go to the computer to see it (again). Mr. Finnegan is fun to watch.

Definitely shows you...

He holds the strop fairly loose, and whips the blade across it with the kind of speed you'll probably only acquire stropping 6 times or more a day for years. It's always impressive watching a master...

Poetry in motion. I move about half as fast as he does on a good day. Maybe one day I'll get that technique down...