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Many thanks to you both. That clears it up perfectly.

:tu

It also means I have more work to perfect my stropping technique, but that is great to know.
And I thought stropping would be the...

I am not sure whether this should have gone in the honing forum or the strop one but here goes:

I have finally managed to hone a wedge to the point of shaving, by putting a single layer of tape...