Another honing question

[Gasman]

When i finshing honing a blade, go to the strop for many passes, then test shave and find my edge is not quite what i was looking for i will go back to the stone. At this point i notice that the edge is not undercutting water any more. Im thinking that this is because of the action of the strop. Is this right?

So at this point, i have to do a lot of laps on a stone before it undercuts the water again. So ive found i need to step back a couple stones and work my way back up to my finisher. But, i hear others saying just a few more laps to refine the edge and test shave again. But if its not undercutting the water, what good is doing just a few laps as this is showing the edge is not tou hing the stone?

What is your opinion on this and how do you overcome this issue? Kill the edge lightly? Im just trying to figure out all the little details nowadays. Thanks to all the guys here that have been honing for years and years, it has helped me to skip a lot of the mistakes made and learned by others and for me to learn faster. Or, at least, to learn with less errors of the tinyest kind. Who would have known that there were so many little details when it comes to honing.