First, let me say thanks in advance to anybody who can advise me on the issue I'm having.

I am fairly new to the straight razor, but had previously been shaving with a DE for the past five years. I decided to make the switch and purchased a Dovo Shavette about 3 months ago to try and somewhat get the hang of shaving with a SR. I had become pretty decent with it, so went ahead and purchased a Boker Edelweiss a week ago, along with a 3" Latigo strop, some razor oil and a razor sleeve. I received everything yesterday and since I've watched a million videos and read a million posts online, woke up this morning and was ready to go......yea, not so fast!

I had absolutely no issue with cutting the strop with my blade, the issue came with the spine of the razor shaving vertical grooves into the leather. No matter how lightly I tried to strop, every now and then I'd be picking shards of leather off the curve of the spine. Obviously this isn't the way it's supposed to go, right? Now I've got these long vertical grooves in my strop that I've had now for two whole days. Is the strop ruined? Can it be repaired? Should it be repaired? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!