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Same with a badger brush. Why badger?

I think it's well accepted Linen is the best media for prestropping. The cloth has the right combination of properties to do the best job. The same with...

With modern manufacture they can treat and weave to make steel wool feel like fine fabric. The feel of your strop is because it was coated with some material to give it that feel. Also the weave in a...

Experiment, did you say experiment?

Actually I've always used a plain linen without paste. Just one of those things you do without trying to analyze it. I don't think of it as part of the...

My understanding is the linen realigns the edge of the blade as well as warming it up but I would imagine a rough leather would do the same but it would have to have properties similar to the linen...