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12-09-2008, 09:16 PM #10
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Thanked: 77I did this a bunch of times while learning to strop. I never lifted the spine. What happens is that you reach the end of a stroke and there's a little "back lash". It's tough to start to lift the edge before stopping completely in order to reverse direction. So you stop, then there's a slight reverse direction like when you stop a car and it rocks back slightly, then you lift the edge to roll it on the spine -- too late, there's a slight nick or catch.
What I finally found to completely eliminate this was to shorten the stroke. Initially I seemed to want to use almost the full length of the stropping surface. I think the slight reverse was a result of approaching the end of the strop and making a concious effort to stop. I now sort of stop on the middle 2/3's of the stropping area. It actually turns out that I go further than that but there is a very gradual stop to reverse direction and no more recoil.