Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
I have been doing 50 linen and 50 leather then trying the HHT. Usually passes. If it does not I see if it will pop hair on my leg. If it doesn't do that then I go back to the hone.

Reading this barber manual chapter on stropping and honing I have been using my thumb as a pivot and keeping my wrist as stiff as possible with light pressure on the strop. Not no pressure but light.

I haven't tried deflection to correct any perceived problems yet. I am not sure I understand how that would improve the edge ? Wouldn't there be a risk of rolling the edge ?

The fore mentioned barber manual says that when coming off the hone go straight to the leather. Only use the linen first when stropping for maintenance in between honings. I haven't been doing that but have been going to the linen first anyhow. Any thoughts on whether going to the leather only following honing would be better ?

In my book, a little linen action can smooth the edge a bit, but not too much. I finish with a Nakayama, and don't notice much difference in shave quality when finishing on linen or linen->leather.

The idea of more sag in the strop to correct problems seems a little scary to me. Maybe if you would use weight of the razor only? I dunno..

I do like more pressure on a tighter strop to "work in" a recalcitrant edge though, I get pretty good results with that.