Quote Originally Posted by MikekiM View Post
I am fortunate to have a local mentor and he shared both of these points with me early on.. shortened my stropping learning curve and saved my strop from damage..

Pressure... I read a post here a while back that suggested pull the strop tight like it's being towed by a freight train and float the blade with the pressure of a flea... or something like that.

Works well for me.
I just make sure that while taught, it's not overly taught to the point where it begins to cup.