Thread: Too heavy of draw damaging edge?

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.

Originally Posted by RezDog

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.

You are so right, I have been thinking my honing has been bad only to find out I am ruining the perfectly keen and smooth edge on a super heavy draw strop!

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.