Thread: Strop Width, X Pattern and Hot Dog Buns

Originally Posted by Jimbo

The way I see it, striations in the bevel are running from tip toward heel like this from X pattern honing (edge on left, spine on right):

Tip
/
/
/
Heel

Unless I've completely misinterpreted X pattern stropping for the last 2 years (entirely possible, I might add ), if a strop were to impart microscopic marks on the edge, they would look like:

Tip
\
\
\
Heel

So to me it looks like X pattern stropping is an "against the grain" process.

Actually James, you kinda lost me at that second part. The way I see it, the stropping (at least the way I'm stropping) goes right along with the "marks" created by X pattern honing, not against them. So we're probably stropping differently from each other.


Scott