I agree that the pasted strop route is the easiest,
and will probably give you better results than the
barber hone for the most part.

You can order pre-pasted paddle strops from Tony
in both CrO green paste or diamond paste. I have
a 2-sided paddle with CrO pasted leather and latigo
from Tony and it works great! You can grab extra
green paste from handamerican.com.

If you want a 2-sided pasted strop, go with black
and green, or 1.0 and 0.5 micron diamond pastes.
That will be able to maintain a razors edge indefin-
itely.

- Scott