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Re: Leading or Trailing Strokes

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wickededge
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I cleaned up the edge again:

Then did 5 light strokes, edge-leading:

and 20 more edge-leading strokes:

I’m again fascinated by the way metal can be so easily pushed along the surface and piled up on the bevel. I was using whisper-lite pressure.

Hopefully people will jump onto this topic to explore it further and relate anecdotal information about cutting performance with edge-leading and edge-trailing techniques.

-Clay