Quote Originally Posted by Disburden View Post


We really need more topics on stropping in the forums...more important than honing imo.
I agree.

I've recently backed off just a bit on the tension on my strop and seem to getting much better results. I think, as someone else here said, that I get slightly more even contact with the edge with just a bit of deflection. I was so worried about turning the edge that I keep the stop really taught and focused on keeping the spine on the strop. Mine spines were getting great stropping action! Since relaxing my off hand and applying more of an X pattern to my strop stroke, my results are significantly better. Same holds true my touchups on my pasted strops.