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[QUOTE=mparker762;461005]Unless, on the second stroke after reversing direction, you absentmindedly let your muscle memory flip it the same way you did on the previous ten strokes, digging it into...

One way to look at this is it's just the "professional stroke" with a hone that the barber's manual recommends to avoid a frown long term, but it's heel leading rather than edge leading so it's safer...

I'm finding it really useful for two things:

1. a tiny thin helje mk 31 5/8 (if that). If I do the flip back and forth thing, I lose my grip on the little bugger and roll the edge. Whereas I...

I was trying to strop a blade and just couldn't get good contact on the "backstroke". so I just did repeated back strokes till I got the contact right and rhythm right. then I just di 10 forehands...