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One advantage Tony with pasting the linen is reduced friction and draw compared pastes applied to leather, this is I guess due to the weave. Second would be that the two linen pasted strops can stay...

Only if the weave of the linen was filled would pastes be of any benefit on a linen strop imo. I have 2 linens from TM that I heavily soaped till full then applied diamond pastes to both. They work...