That is what I am thinking, the excessive passes is wrecking my edges!
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Well strops with a heavy draw are very pressure sensitive. A light hand on a medium or heavy draw makes the stropping much much easier, add the smallest amount of pressure and you will know it right away.
Draw on a strop is like a symptom of a disease. It's not a disease in itself just a quality of the strop. It by itself has no direct affect on the edge.
What you do with the strop and how you react to the draw be it heavy or light will be the factor that affects the edge.
I prefer a strop that I can just detect the draw as I like a small amount of feedback. Heavy draw strops tend to throw off my rhythm and I feel like I could roll the edge a lot easier
In my case, with the small paddle strop, it is a visual determination that determines the pressure. Given the concave surface, I have to add pressure so that the edge comes in contact with the stropping surface. If not, it visibly is not making contact.
Edit, much later: that said, it is a more lateral pass rather than it would be normally, so the pressure on a point-by-point rather than linear basis is not as durable.
Well to be honest i am not sure it's Roo, the Vendor sent me three strops to test and the only caviate was don't cut them and he identified each one in an email and said this colored one was Roo and this was Spanish HH and this was Cordovan but the strops upon arrival were not marked so I may have the Roo and Italian HH mixed up