Originally Posted by
Geezer
If you look carefully at the photographs, There is one with a tapered spine getting larger as it approached the tip. The version would be the one I would consider for the use of the flat strop, as the taper would assure a good bevel angle. Coulter did not, to the best of my knowledge, mark his razor frames. He was also said to have made his own blade steel from the material of his watch springs. I have a blade of his that looks like wootz, but am unable to prove the concept.
~Richard