Tried out the new strop. 25 round trips on the rough side (pasted with neatsfoot oil and jewelers rouge) and 25 round trips on the smooth side (dressed with Fromm's, and both the Clausses that were giving me a little honing trouble easily passed the hanging hair test. Yaaayyy! . The thinner blade caught the hair and literally split it up the shaft before cutting it in two. As impressive as that was, I figgered a bit more stropping was in order to get it to cut cleanly. I did, and it did. I that one of the Clausses is a half-hollow shoulderless, and doesn't hone the same as my others, which are full hollow. I think that's why it gave me trouble.