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Stropping is polishing and polishing is actually sharpening. It's wearing away metal at a very, very fine level. A pasted strop is more agressive but isn't really necessary, in my opinion. If the...

The hone stays flat but the leather, especially from a hanging strop, bends at the edge of the blade, giving it a more obtuse angle of contact than the hone does - hence the microbevel. You don't...

Hanging strops work great for a good reason. They "flex". In order for a paddle strop to work properly, it has to "flex", too, and that's why the best paddle strops are flexible in the middle and...