Thread: Stropping smiling blades

I'm glad you were able to understand what I wrote
Like you have found, a slim strop can make it easier to bias strop to a part of the blade. Not that you can't do it on a wider strop, just a slimmer strop tends to "do as it's told" more readily. |\|/| is possibly a better sign for the stroke.

I started stropping this way when I started because it is easier to learn than X or sweep stroke. When I became more confident in stropping I progressed to the other techniques, but still fall back on this for framebacks and heavy smiles.

PuFF

I found bunch of really old threads getting bumped up recently - I found them quite interesting and some very entertaining too.
And just when you think newbies are not good for anything but to ask the same old questions over and over

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. :-)

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

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

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

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

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

Josh