Quote Originally Posted by cudarunner View Post
I guess that all those great shaves I got off of the 8K weren't so great! I never used a 'treated strop' I still don't. I have them but only use them on rare occasions. But the pasted strop only gets about 5-7 laps and the strop is only 14" long.

However all freshly honed razors do get a about 100 laps on cloth followed by few hundred laps on leather and that's whether or not the freshly honed blade has touched a treated strop or not.

To Each Their Own.
Yes, there are a million ways to skin this particular cat. I have a tendency to be long winded on here, and didn't want to overwhelm him with a micro-novel.

Personally, mostly due to a lack of resources, I refresh my edge on the only razor hone I have: a Shapton M5 12k ceramic. Then I use many, uncounted laps on my 3" Black Latigo strop (first webbing, then leather) from SRD to meditate. It's not a Lynn Abrams edge, but it works. I've also completely honed a few razors this way.

Though there are wrong ways to hone a SR, the "right way" is a much more wide, grey area. The OP can streamline his self education in this matter by spending a weekend in the SRP library.