I just purchased my very first straight razor; strop and pastes. I bought a dovo and I got a two sided strop with linen and leather. I also bought the pastes that go with those surfaces. I have looked and read and Im kinda confused. I understand that you should strop each time before shaving but Im confused about the pastes. for daily or every other day shaving, should I be stropping on a clean strop without paste and only use paste on a different strop every once in a while to sharpen the razor up enough to make it last longer before honing is needed? OR do you treat the daily strop with the respective paste every time you're going to strop for shaving? I want to do this right. so far I've gotten mixed signals with articles stating both. one said that you should 'daily strop' on a clean leather strop and the other said to ' apply paste, work it in, let dry, strop as usual' before shaving. so which is it? I figured I get two strops. one remaining clean w/o pastes for my daily, every time im going to shave, strop and one for pastes to help keep the razor sharp and last between honings.