Thread: New people and 3" strops

Absolutely no reason you can't perform X-strokes on a 3" strop, IMO

Originally Posted by Siguy

Absolutely no reason you can't perform X-strokes on a 3" strop, IMO

Of Course you can,But newbs feel with a 3in, strop,all that is needed is an up and down stroke,thats wrong IMO

it s like so many other things you learn ,,, do it the right way step by step till your good enough to get creative , but if you stick with the basics the first time you wont have to break your bad habits later on I started on a 2" strop , had to do the x stroke ,, now I just naturally do it no matter what strop I use 3" or 2" tc

X marks the spot. X a question and get an answer. Xed it out. X my heart and hope to... X is an essential part of living. Mark your ballot with an X in the right place. Acquire many X's via bad marriages. Forgotten how to write, X your signature. I'd swear that an X movement is more natural to the human frame than back and forth or up and down or side to side. Extol the value of X in any mathematical formula. Cross eyed is an X look. So, newbie's learn the X stroke in stropping and you will reap X amount of rewards for it.

Check this box. LOL.

I learned X strokes, windshield washer strokes, etc. on the hones. Whenever I go to the 3", I do it on them without thinking.

I think the idea behind recommending a newbie get a 3" is to take some of the initial difficulty out of the start up process. It certainly helped me... and others, or so I've heard

Originally Posted by Siguy

I learned X strokes, windshield washer strokes, etc. on the hones. Whenever I go to the 3", I do it on them without thinking.

I think the idea behind recommending a newbie get a 3" is to take some of the initial difficulty out of the start up process. It certainly helped me... and others, or so I've heard

And -- as many have written, and many have learned -- using a 3"-wide bench strop (aka "paddle strop") takes much-if-not-all the worry about "turning" a blade's edge out of the equation. As for me, I'm big on those "windshield wiper" strokes... "Windshield wipers slappin' time..."

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

X marks the spot. X a question and get an answer. Xed it out. X my heart and hope to... X is an essential part of living. Mark your ballot with an X in the right place. Acquire many X's via bad marriages. Forgotten how to write, X your signature. I'd swear that an X movement is more natural to the human frame than back and forth or up and down or side to side. Extol the value of X in any mathematical formula. Cross eyed is an X look. So, newbie's learn the X stroke in stropping and you will reap X amount of rewards for it.

Exactamundo.

From my own personal experience, a new guy can nick/cut a strop just as easily be it 2-1/2" or 3".

I started with 2-1/2", went to 3", than back to 2-1/2". I'm a firm believer in the X stroke but if the strop is good and flat I hear that the straight up and back is also effective.

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

Exactamundo.

Surely you mean x-actamundo....

Regards,
Neil