Hi all,
I've been reading a lot about how stropping with a trailing stroke on untreated leather, newspaper, palm of a hand, denim etc can improve the edge on a tool.
I was hoping to ask 3 main questions.
1) Are the materials listed above all reasonable?
2) How important is the absolute flatness of the surface when doing this?
3) How important is the angle you strop at? My impression is that this kind of stropping is not removing material apart from the wire edge, so the hitting the perfect angle is not essential as you aren't in danger of rounding the edge.
Any tips would be great.