Re: strop for knife sharpening?

In article <pan.2008.06.30.19.00.01.74474@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jack wrote:

Was watching an old movie and there was a scene in a barebrshop and the
barber was running his straight razor up and down a leather strop (not
strap, although it is a strap). What does this do for an edge? Does it
really sharpen it or just act like a steel does for a kitchen knife? I
have available to me a couple of these from a local barbershop that is
closing and was wondering if it could be used on my kitchen knives? I
know you wouldn't get a precision ground edge angle on the knife.

Apparently similar, if this is correct:

<q http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2002-01/1012505054.Sh.r.html>

The straight razor was stroked along the length of the strop, with the
sharp edge of the razor trailing the motion of the razor (in other words,
the razor was moved in the direction opposite it's cutting direction).
As the razor moved along the strop, the heavy leather tended to bend the
curled edges and burrs back in the proper direction. The stroking motion
was alternated on each side of the razor and gradually would line up the
cutting edge.

</q>

More detail (and on honing, too); scroll down for large section on
stropping:

http://www.classicshaving.com/articles/article/590351/4057.htm


So it's more like a steel then. I didn't know either way. Thanks for the
info. BTW - saw your sig about isp's dropping usenet - Verizon hasn't
dropped usenet per se, they eliminated a bunch of hierarchies, going
with what is called the 'Big 8'. Amongst the hierarchies that got
dropped was alt. which not only had porn but a bunch of useful groups
like alt.binaries.pictures.rail which had pics people around the world
have taken of full-size trains. And Google doesn't do binary groups.

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