I took a brand new Gold Dollar 208 through the following:
--honed on 8000 Naniwa Superstone (about 50 cycles, starting off with light circles)
--stropped on mounted felt loaded with 2.0 micron CBN slurry (40 cycles or so)
--stropped on mounted felt loaded with 1.0 micron CBN slurry (40 cycles or so)
--stropped on nanocloth loaded with 0.25 micron CBN (Dr. Matt's hanging nanocloth) (40 cycles or so)
--stropped on leather (about 50 cycles)

Visually, the resultant razor edges looked like mirrors, and felt very sharp by gingerly touching the edge with finger or thumb.

The resultant razor easily passed the Hanging Hair Test, and I even shaved my arm hairs with no problem (they even made a "popping sound"). I'm tempted to lather-up an arm and see what the razor does under close to face shaving conditions.

What I noticed is that when the edge is getting really sharp, the stropping makes a curious "singing" sound. Is this what you guys also hear when stropping a really sharp razor?

I also began to use a very light touch when honing on stone or stropping. Just the weight of the razor as was suggested to me by several forum members. This was a really big error on my part before and caused me to ruin several inexpensive razors (especially using firm pressure on the stone hones).

I'm going to try to get some digital microscope photos, if I could figure out how to use the calibration function. I can take photos that look nice, but they are really not of much value for comparison if I can't describe the magnification or give a measurement of the angled edge.

I'm going to repeat the same procedure, except use the nanocloth mounted on glass plates that I recently received, to substitute for the felt mounted strops.

My thanks to board members for advice and comments.