Thread: Common stropping mistakes?

The ones listed above are probably the big ones. I've also killed two edges from flipping at exactly the wrong spot, so that the edge of the razor scraped down the edge of the leather handle that is sewn on to the end of the strop. But that's probably not a common mistake.

IME using too much pressure or allowing too much slack doesn't permanently ruin the edge, it just needs to be restropped correctly and the edge will come back ok. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize this though, so plz disregard any old posts of mine that take a contrary position.