There's draw; what causes it, what does it do...there's endless strop treatments, both traditional and modern high-tech...fast or slow...lots of strokes or a few...paddle or hanging or bench............

And if all that weren't enough, I stumble into the world of old-steel, hefty razors (1/4 ground or heftier) and that really seems to make my stropping different. I've no studies or tips or tricks, just an observation that after a couple of weeks of shaving/stropping with some 120+ year old English heavy weights, the razor makes a big difference in the stropping...duh.

So far, for me, it seems the heavier razors are easier to strop, or at least harder to mess up with less than perfect stropping. It was tough to get them honed right in the first place, but since then, they seem to improve nicely with reasonable stropping (i.e. less than 20 strokes generally)

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but since we kick around all the other minutia in the passionate pursuit of the perfect edge, I thought I'd toss this out. Anyone else have thoughts on the differences in stropping different weights, steels, profiles, etc?

- Dale