I'm new to all this and I'm trying to gather as much information as I can.
I'm a little intimidated by what I've read about honing, so I just wanted to clarify something.
I realize different people use different techniques but, to put it simply, can a pasted strop fully replace a hone or is a pasted strop used solely for between-hone tune-ups?
If you're using a hone and a strop, do you hone then leather strop? And, before each shave, linen strop then leather strop?
Sorry if my questions are idiotic, it's just I've plunged face first into as much information as I can physically take in and now I'm trying to sort through it in my head. ["Dumb-looking" emoticon goes here]