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Hahaha!! All I know is that edge is very delicate and stropping away on any surface that is not perfectly smooth can and will hurt the edge to some degree. Common sense when you think about it but...

Someday I may treat myself to a good quality strop. Mine are basicaly latigo scraps that I found. Still, I like it better than the Illinois strops I used when I first started with straights.

The importance of breaking in a strop has been talked about numerous times, so I doubt this is news, but recently I did a comparison of the edge stroped on a new latigo strop to one I had been using...