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    I've been blessed with good form right from the get go and my blades shave perfectly. I was only worried that because I love stropping and just being able to relax while doing it I might over do it some day.

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    The only danger with a ton of stropping is letting your technique go - as long as you have good stropping technique, you can do 1000 laps with no problem! (not sure why you would want to go past 100, though)

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    Good question and I'm glad to see the answer is no...I strop the HELL out of my blades! So much so, I'll probably get carpal tunnel someday!

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    Quote Originally Posted by basil View Post
    I was wondering if it was possible to over strop a blade?
    Not that I've ever noticed.

    I did an experiment once where I dulled a blade and then tried to strop it back to sharpness. It took roughly 1200 strokes over nearly an hour but it worked. Not sure why stropping blade that was already sharp would be bad, but I guess it's theoretically possible to oversharpen it similar to the risk one faces on a conventional hone, but I suspect it would take quite a bit of dedication and time to do it.

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