Thread: Doing the flip

I,m not sure it's hurting , only seeing you do it or you see a degradation in the edge, will tell, but mine tends to do a little slapping and I,m having no issues, but I will say this slow down and it don't slap. Make deliberate slow measured laps, with an easy flip and start the blade moving with the blade coming down softly. In the beginning you need to just perfect the technique before speeding up then you won't hurt your edge. I would rather have a great edge slowly than a bad edge that was fast. Tc

Back in the day when you went to a barber and they stropped the straight you would hear a loud slapping sound as the barber flipped the blade over. It was part of the "show".

As long as the edge is not contacting the strop as you do the flip no damage will occur. It's only if you are contacting the edge during the slap will you damage the edge.

Probably strop leather has something to do with it. My Russian horse hide and my SRD strop both slap. My Illinois 454 doesn't. Watch Lynn's video on refreshing a blade when he strops on a new SRD. You can hear the slap and song of a good stropping.....music to my ears.