Hi, probably a silly question, or just an observation really, but I've now been straight shaving for around a year and get very good results. I hone all my own razors and am very happy with everything I've learnt. One thing I have learnt is there's a lot of different opinions.

A quick question, does anyone strop using a stroke that is only diagonal, i.e. just HALF of an X stroke. I basically stroke from top left to bottom right and then bottom right to top left, I never strop in the much revered X stroke fashion. I do 30/70 pre and 10/10 post, and it always seems to work just fine. I have a good technique with this stroke and note the blade is always flat on the strop. Just curious if anyone else here who may be reading this uses this stroke?

Carl