Excellent post. Someone else posted a thread recently with regard to the term "Stropmeister." I will admit, I had a vague idea what my technique should be, but I never felt the difference from stropping until recently when I learned to do it correctly. There is a huge difference, and I mean HUGE, between a stropped edge and a non-stropped one. With my fine hair, it is the difference between HHT and no HHT. It literally feels as if it becomes sharper. And as mentioned above, I had been getting irritation ATG until stropping correctly, and now it's smooth like butta.

I would certainly vote for a "Stropping 101" thread stickied that compiles information from this thread and others (especially the 30 vs 60 trials and Stropmeister).