Thread: 2.5" vs 3" - What's the Deal?

Scott,
We founded advice as I see it. Things were done a certain way for a reason...often because it was "best" or sometimes simply because it was "good enough".

Personally I find a 2 1/2" strop plenty wide and many felt the X pattern was needed. I also just like the proportion of the narrower piece. While I don't think cupping has been a big issue with mine, in theory at least wider may be more prone to it.

Today the 3" seems the strop of choice now days as is a 3" Norton. Both are easier to use than say a 2 1/2" or 2 1/4" but are they better? or are we giving up something by going wider?

(BTW, I'm don't warm my car up..a 1995 Saturn with 200,000+ miles on it. I figure it's only got so many hours of life left and I won't waste them sitting in front of the house)

Tony

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

(BTW, I'm don't warm my car up..a 1995 Saturn with 200,000+ miles on it. I figure it's only got so many hours of life left and I won't waste them sitting in front of the house)

Tony

The Batmobile and I (the Batmobile being what my daughter calls my '94 Mazda, closing in on 200,000) don't want to hear this talk of automotive mortality!

Sorry, back to the topic ... your starter (when we get the other bills out of the way and send the order!) will be my first strop, which I notice is 2 1/2"--I always just assumed wider would be better and didn't reflect that the need to do an X-pattern might actually benefit the blade. There's always something new to be learned here.

--Rich

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

(BTW, I'm don't warm my car up..a 1995 Saturn with 200,000+ miles on it. I figure it's only got so many hours of life left and I won't waste them sitting in front of the house)

Tony

I'm the proud owner of a 1996 Saturn. My wife wants me to sell it but no am I selling that old warrior for a third of what it's worth!