Had to move my truck into the garage because of hail warning...
Kind of doing some spring cleaning so I thouhgt I'd strop my mocassin ranger.

I realized I've been associating concave with stropping/or what I consider reverse sharpening. I'm used to using a stone on to ceramic, trying to shave/no pressure, and going from choil to tip, and focusing on doing repetetive strokes exactly the same listening for the sound the edge makes when it's as sharp as it will get with whatever coarseness I'm using. Today I used my strop on the "mr" while watching some t.v. using the same technique above just reversed (tip to choil spine first up the strop) and found the sweet spot being where I could feel the flat of the edge developing surface tension from where it was worn to the strop - to shallow/steep an angle and there was a definite difference. So I guess I'm semi concaving my edges - I try to use the least amount of pressure on my belt sander even if it barely shows and requires multiple passes. I agree with the all the above about making the edge too thin being bad for choppers. Just wanted to point out a possible difference in sharpening techniques, btw the "mr" is razor sharp, too bad it's being retired for the EH3 - now to make strop on 2 inch dowel to sharpen it.