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I feel I am "competent" at stropping. Meaning I don't cut my strop anymore and my edges don't degrade if anything they improve slightly.

We are all in different places on the learning curve of...

I just purchased a SRD modular paddle strop on the BST will this help me improve my edges? I have two hanging strops and one linen component but I was going to experiment with different techniques...

I am using a Shapton Pro 8k (all my synthetics are Shapton Pro except for my 3k which is Naniwa Pro (chosera)

Thanks for the insight on the barber hone I will keep it in mind as I learn.

This...

It is off the Lakeside barber hone. Two different angles for lighting.

I think those deep striations are left over from the lower grits even though I am using less pressure and torque. It seems that either I am not getting the technique right or I am not spending enough...

Here is the final result after stropping- this edge passed HHT3 with flying colors using my wife's very thin hair. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE ACHIEVED THIS! I am still trying to understand the...

Lol- you are right as usual! I am determined!

After making sure the blade shaves hair from heel to toe off of each stone, making sure everything looked good under magnification I was rewarded with...

Does this look better? I saw that there was quite a bit of honewear on the spine, but it was pretty even so I used two layers of tape and re-set the bevel on the 3k Naniwa Pro. The edge now shaves...

Fooling around with different techniques today- and something strange (for me) happened. This is a micrograph after bevel set on a 3k Naniwa Pro stone, but instead of cleaning the stone off after I...