Thread: How much pressure when stropping?

Most strops have a little draw. If it does you would use only enough pressure to feel some draw. Looked at another way, the simplicity of stropping becomes painfully obvious; strop with enough pressure so it feels like you are stropping.

What this means is that when you move the blade down the strop you should feel something, and what that is is stropping. As Randy points out, this effect happens at practically any speed.