I just got most of my kit from SRD to get started and find I'm asking myself what feels like some pretty stupid questions, but you guys have been supportive so far so...

I got the 3" latigo strop (which is a beautiful piece of equipment). It has a very small hook with a circular ring on the end. How the heck does anyone attach this to their towel bar? The hook is so small I can't get it around my built in closet bar which is about the width of a pencil. Do I have to buy a hook to screw into the wall to put the ring around or do most of you tie your strops to towel bars, etc. with some kind of string?

From what I understand, it's important to attach it to something so that it can hang straight because if there is any twisting to the strop the blade may not touch it evenly across the surface--is that correct?

I'm excited to get started and I think I'm going to play with lather tonight and shave with my cartridge razor. I can wait till the weekend when I have more time for the first go with the str8.