If you use and prefer a certain stone for it's finishing characteristics and then keep the edge going for a while by stropping, don't you lose the original characteristics of the hone you finished on? It would seem to me this could happen fairly quickly with a pasted strop. Let's say for instance the best Coticule edge you've ever done that gives you the most comfortable shave you've ever had. Wild guess, ballpark figure, your experience of how much stropping before the edge has lost the Coticule feel you were trying for to begin with? I've read of guys keeping edges going for months with pasted strops. I can't seem to wrap my head around how you could call your edge a Coticule/Arky/Jnat/ etc. edge at that point. Haven't all the characteristic been worn away by the paste?