Knife Sharpening Experts: Stropping It
After sharpening your knives, you might want to make their edges slippery sharp by stropping them. This can be done manually or electrically. Strop your edges and make them shine.
You’re sharpening your knife and have tested it to confirm for sharpness. You know that you’ve achieved it because you’ve found a burr on the knife’s edge. This burr is how we know that the edge has reached the point of absolute sharpness. It confirms it. Should you stop there? Oh, but you must. There’s only so much sharpening that can be done to an edge. To continue after that only results in unnecessary loss of metal on your blade edge. To continue gains nothing. Are you done then?

