Gentlemen,
I hold both strops. No particular reason, really, except that I have always done it that way.
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Gentlemen,
I hold both strops. No particular reason, really, except that I have always done it that way.
Gentlemen, I appreciate the responses. I am getting a very firm "either way -- stropper's preference" as the definitive answer. I think I can put this hurdle behind me.
When I first started stropping, the dangling strop would swing enough to make me stop and steady it , then begin again. I my have been wrong, but I figured it from bad technique. So I made a point to learn how to strop with out the swinging. Seems to work ok for me.
I hold both. I can just keep moving onto the felt or linen with just a flip of the hand without having to stop. Plus the other piece would just be flopping around, and I think I would find that annoying. this is on a strop where both pieces are connected.
I've done it both ways, usually one component at a time. I'll hold both for particular strops where the second component swings.
Until today, I only held one at time.
That was because my old strop only had one piece.
NOW, I'm uptown with a fancy schmancy two piece with a linen strop and a horsehide.
Holding both of them together seems to work just fine and feels more comfortable to me. :p