Over the weekend, my brother was here visiting. After honing on my LPB, he stropped and came away with a razor that passed the HHT-4. He wasn't thrilled with the shave, though, and I encouraged him to hit the linen and leather again. It made a huge difference for him. I'm not advocating it for everyone, but I've literally done 200 linen/200 leather before to get an edge "right" when I'd struggled... I'm too hard-headed to use pastes despite the fact that I know, from experience, that they work very well and with less effort

i've done just that , i'll go linen leather then stone back to linen, may be as many times as it will take. I find its improved my edges many times.

gary

Gary,

I have used paddle strops almost exclusively for the last ca three (3) years - my mainstay at present is a Neil Miller Aluminium modular. The panels I use most often are tallow tanned leather, linen & 0.5 micron CrOx dusted cow-hide. I now have an alligator panel dusted with 0.25 micron cubic boron nitride that I comparing with the 0.5 micron CrOx.

Since I got the Tony Miller horse-hide and the Torolf hanging strops from you, I have been using these quite a bit recently.

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

i remeber you saying you liked your paddle strop. if i was finishing on paste the paddle i have from srd would be perfect, its strange but a freshly honed coti edge real benifits from a linen, such as neil miller linen. why i'm not sure but it just does.

cheers gary

Gary,

+1 to that; the linen certainly seems to make a good deal of difference

Have fun & a good Sunday.

Best regards

Russ

PhatMan, if you don't mind, how do you like the linen pad on the Neil Miller paddle stop? How does it compare to the linen on the hanging strops as far as quality and usability?

SlowRain,

IIRC Mr Neil Miller uses the same linen stock as Mr Tony Miller.

I have compared my Tony Miller horse-hide hanger (linen side) with the paddle linen panel, and in use they both give the same (excellent) results

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

My humble level of experience mirrors what Paul describes about repeating the sequence of linen/leather after doing both already. Going back to linen has helped a noticable number of blades.

On paddle vs hanger, I'm not qualified to say. I have taken blades honed w/ taped spines to newspaper over a hard stone, and the improvement was not subtle or ambiguous.

I have to agree that the linen can vastly improve HHT. I've tried it on both the Kanayama linen, and the Scrupleworks/Torolf linen.

Thanks, PhatMan.

As I always forget to do the HHT before stropping, I can't really say much about edge improvement, but I think I'm breaking in the worsted wool on the Scrupleworks pretty nicely...boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy! It feels like it sucks the edge onto its surface, I almost like stropping on it beter than on the leather component. Almost .