I decided to give this a go and think that I am seeing more of the advantage of stropping than the 1K shave.

2 pass shave WTG and then ATG. No strops. A little rough, but then after stropping 20 each on CROX, fire hose, and then leather it improved tremendously.

A good looking shave. I will leave it as is and strop it a bit more for experimenting.