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My old man was a Mississippi farm boy who came from a line of blacksmiths. A carpenter by trade, and a good one. He taught me how to hone pocket knives when I was in my early teens and he would strop...

Yeah Kevin, I'm not knocking that you're trying something different. I think it is great that people experiment. We would never make progress if people didn't.

Giving a little bit of thought to the premise of eliminating prep or stropping I was thinking of how much I enjoy the lathering and the stropping. I don't know if I will eventually get tired of one...

I'm with ben.mid, stropping is a different animal. I believe that my razor is sharper after stropping then after the hone by itself. Maybe it is just alignment maybe there is some abrasion in there...