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I was thinking of just reducing the number of strokes so you don't over hone. Maybe just 2 passes per side or something.

Though maybe you really do want to do a bunch of passes on smooth leather...

"need" is a bad word that needlessly confuses things more often than not. You also don't "need" hones if you have the appropriate pastes- they both work.



Well, not at first. What I'm...

Thanks for the responses.



You mean pasted strop then unpasted strop for 10 shaves then repeat and after a while you only get 4 shaves between pasted strops?

I'm having a hard time seeing...

If you strop on something fairly rigid, like balsa or pine the rounding problem would be reduced. You could also use lapping films on glass which should completely get rid of it.

Riooso, are you...

Why is the standard to strop on plain leather every day and hone every few months instead of honing once and maintaining indefinitely by doing only a few strokes every day on a pasted strop?

It...