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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    Read this.

    Best info on what stropping actuall does, as opposed to conjecture on the part of all us duffers.

    Quote Originally Posted by sicboater View Post
    I totally forgot about this! I remember reading it and thinking that it cleared up why my linen seems to blacken over time with use. It must be the edge oxidization coming off. Thanks Seraphim!

    I think somebody has posted this a few times in a few threads... Thanks for finding the article I had been looking for it and with my limited computer skills just could not latch on to it.....
    This is one reason that I have been saying all along to actually use the linen side of your strop, the mirco rust and the roughness is depoisted there and not on your leather....

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    Could somebody please tell me the proper way to apply paste to the linen side of a strop and how long one should wait before using the pasted side.Some say they don't use paste some do.only after honing.Please clear this up for me or at least give me something to go on..............Thanks..........Jim C.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icedog View Post
    With the proper technique and stance, stropping in front of the partner makes you look really cool and sexy.


    I'm not so sure about that ... besides my strops couldn't hold a candle to the ones my 2.5 year old twins can throw.

    Barney

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    Quote Originally Posted by driver/examiner View Post
    Could somebody please tell me the proper way to apply paste to the linen side of a strop and how long one should wait before using the pasted side.Some say they don't use paste some do.only after honing.Please clear this up for me or at least give me something to go on..............Thanks..........Jim C.
    Here's Josh's tutorial for pasting a strop, it should clear it up. When I've pasted my strop, with .5 diamond, it was allowed 2 days to dry, I'm not sure if it's necessary to wait that long, but that's what I did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    Don't forget to suck in the gut!

    And dont forget to pay attention to what your doing, you would look pretty silly if you sliced yourself looking all cool in front of her

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    Quote Originally Posted by driver/examiner View Post
    Could somebody please tell me the proper way to apply paste to the linen side of a strop and how long one should wait before using the pasted side.Some say they don't use paste some do.only after honing.Please clear this up for me or at least give me something to go on..............Thanks..........Jim C.
    If this is your everyday strop I would not paste it at all, but if you insist the Dovo white paste is good stuff and I would wait 24 hours.... White chalk can be used, soap can be used too, these are all options that I don't use....
    I just use a brand new stiff nylon brush on mine to clean it out about every 6 months. Thanks to the wife, I have to buy a brand new nylon scrub brush every 6 months, she always seem to find mine, no matter how well I hide it....
    Last edited by gssixgun; 08-22-2008 at 04:16 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by icedog View Post
    With the proper technique and stance, stropping in front of the partner makes you look really cool and sexy.
    Especially if you do it commando style.
    No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero

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