Quote Originally Posted by Brad View Post
Before I was trying to keep as light a touch as possible, under the understanding that just like in honing, this gives the sharpest edge ( may need to refine this for honing as well). I was trying to have almost no weight anywhere. I think in doing this the contact was not as complete across the blade as it should have been.

Today I applied jsut enough pressure to deflect the strop slightly, but focused on applying any force right at the edge of the spine
I get it now.

That is an excellent approach. I do this too, and in fact I learned it from honedright way back when.