I recently purchased a couple of razors and stop from SRD. My question is this. My strop is the 3 inch Premium 3 Buffalo Leather Strop. What are my options for the four sides (front and back of the leather and front and back of the linen strop. I recently read a post about putting paste on the back of the leather. This may have covered in other posts but I couldn't find anything with a search. This may be ahead of what I should be considering since I have only shaved twice. The second time went much better than the first. I spent much more time on stropping on the second attempt. Thank You for all of the effort so many of you have put into this forum. Shaving with a straight razor has been something I have been interested in for many years but until I found this forum I didn't have enough info to know where to start. Sorry for being longwinded.

Gerry King