the HHT is a point for my previous comment with your honing.

I understand hht to be shaving hair above the skin. Though now I'm typing I ask: Is it cleaving the single hair pinched between the fingers. I find there is a difference between the two abilities. I have always understood plain strops to be corrective- straightening, aligning the edge, burnishing. not as sharpeners; seems to me for a strop to be pushing you to hht it must be sharpening or... see above.

"eat your edge" is not descriptive enough for me to get it... from rolling up onto the edge before you treated to stiffen it? from the angle? or from it's prior treatment. I know nothing of cloth strops; never had one