Thread: Poly webbing side of my strop chipped my edge:(

Too much "pressure" while stropping?
Not 100% sure but I think you should be holding the strop "loosely" also....

I used normal stropping pressure. Should I use less than on the leather side?

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I'm just guessing here that you may have turned the blade just a little too early and caught the edge while still moving forward.

It didn't happen when I was flipping, it was sometime during the draw. Should I be using very light pressure?

I always use the same pressure on the web strop as I would on a leather strop, which is to say very little. I try to use just enough to keep the spine on the strop and the edge kind of follows along.

There could have been something stuck in the webbing that caught the edge, but for it to chip the edge I would think there would have to be other factors to cause it to chip like too much pressure and something in the strop or another combination. You could have also lifted the razors causing the toe to drag harder and folded the edge and on the reverse lap could have snapped the fold off.