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Maybe I was not clear in what I meant. I did not mean pushing the blade through like on a honing stone. I meant dragging the blade like in a stropping stropping, but instead of the x-stroke going...

Does anyone recommend stropping on the pastes the opposite way (dragging the blade from the toe to the heel)? In theory this would keep the striations the same way as with the stones.

It would seem that regular honing on a stone would create cross striations that go from the toe to the heal of the bade (from spine to edge) while the honing on a pasted strop or bench hone would...

Does creating the bevel refer to making the thin metal fin that cuts the whiskers after being aligned with the strop, or is the bevel something else? If so, is the bevel created with the 4K and...

I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. Your explanations definately make a lot sense and the cheese analogy made me smile :) . Do you think that it is more difficult to get an...

After watching Lynn's DVD several times and reading as many articles as I can, the concept of over-honing still confuses me. I understand that an over-honed edge will pass over whiskers without...