Thread: Ambidextrous Stropping ....... old dog, new trick

Originally Posted by Slasher

Well, try doing that with a, 50mm Iwasaki Kamisori and a 3" strop,for example.

I don't see where that would make any difference since I believe both sides would need stropping rather than just the hollow ground side.

Originally Posted by engine46

I don't see where that would make any difference since I believe both sides would need stropping rather than just the hollow ground side.

No comment.

...I thought of it to even the wear on the edges of the strop; but it's easier to just turn the strop upside down. Head stands could work, too.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

JMO.In Reality, if you use an X stroke (as you should) the wear on the strop will be equal across the entire surface.
Right handed, left handed, makes no diff.

If that's true, then I'm doing it wrong. I do an x-stroke right handed and certainly put more wear on the right side of my strop. The blade has much more contact with the right side of the strop as compared to the nearly untouched left side of the strop.

Originally Posted by Utopian

If that's true, then I'm doing it wrong. I do an x-stroke right handed and certainly put more wear on the right side of my strop. The blade has much more contact with the right side of the strop as compared to the nearly untouched left side of the strop.

Maybe so, none of my strops have that issue If your wearing out one side of the strop than I think your using uneven pressure.JMO

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Maybe so, none of my strops have that issue If your wearing out one side of the strop than I think your using uneven pressure.JMO

With a 3inch strop and a 3 inch blade and an X stroke, my blade is only touching the left side of the strop at the beginning of the stroke. The pressure is even but the contact is not uniform through the entire width of the stroke during the full stroke.

Originally Posted by Utopian

With a 3inch strop and a 3 inch blade and an X stroke, my blade is only touching the left side of the strop at the beginning of the stroke. The pressure is even but the contact is not uniform through the entire width of the stroke during the full stroke.

Have never owned a 3 in. strop,all of mine are 2.5

Originally Posted by Utopian

With a 3inch strop and a 3 inch blade and an X stroke, my blade is only touching the left side of the strop at the beginning of the stroke. The pressure is even but the contact is not uniform through the entire width of the stroke during the full stroke.

This is assuming that you start with the blade the full width on the strop. Assuming that you are right handed why not start with mostly the heel on the strop to the left side coming to full strop/razor contact at mid stroke. This would create the most even contact duration for each area of the blade and create an X pattern of wear on the strop.

But that would cause any blade with a stabilizer to drag a gouge into the strop. I think the stroke has to begin with the blade as far to the left as possibly can be done with the stabilizer still remaining just to the right of the right side of the strop.

With a 3" strop and a 3" blade why use an X Stroke?