The other day, while kind of spacing out and stropping, I looked down at my strop to realize that there were fine scratches on it. On inspection of the edge of my edge, a piece several millimeters long has been "tipped" over a little bit. I had thought that I'd been nothing but careful, but this is apparently not the case.

I had also hoped I could go longer without having to submit myself and my beautiful shave ready blade to my own clumsiness, but I suppose I don't have much of a choice right now. Do I need to go 4000/8000, or can I just do some "tuning" with the 8000?

Thanks!