Is a pasted strop roughly equivalent to a barber hone in terms of what it does?
For instance it's hard to over hone on the Chinese 12k but to touch up a razor you probably need more than 4 or 5 passes.
With a barber hone or a chromium oxide pasted strop 4 or 5 passes is probably enough and you can over hone.
Or are there some advantages to barber hones over a pasted strop (or vice versa)?