Stropping smiling blades

My favorite bumps are all my old threads about how it was taking me six months to learn to hone... :) I think a chimp would have had a shorter learning curve.

Josh

But now it's mastered it was well worth it. :-)

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Originally Posted by JoshEarl

My favorite bumps are all my old threads about how it was taking me six months to learn to hone... :) I think a chimp would have had a shorter learning curve.

Josh

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It took me 4 years! Now how do you think that makes me feel Josh? :)

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Originally Posted by AFDavis11

It took me 4 years! Now how do you think that makes me feel Josh? :)

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But then you taught me. I probably would have taken at least twice as long to figure it out otherwise... :)

Josh

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Originally Posted by Bruce

welsh...,

I got some scruffings on one of my strops too, but figured out it had nothing to do with the edge, rather it was a sharp edge on the french tip that was doing the mischief. The compliance of the hanging strop, versus the absolutely flat paddle strop, should accommodate a bit of a grin just fine.

good luck

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Thanks, Bruce.

Hmmm, my scuffings are in the very middle of the stopr though. I will observe more closely to determine the culprit!