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My hypothesis is that heating the blade makes it a bit softer, more malleable, and responsive to the burnishing effect of stropping.

You may be right, but I think temperature differences at the...

Good point. Yes, I too vigorously prep the strop with the ball of my palm to warm up the leather, then I heat my SR under running hot water before stropping. Heating up the steel seems to have a...

One day I stropped my blade after cleaning it under hot water (~135 degrees F) and it felt "buttery" on the strop. Over the last three months, I have experimented with stropping cold and after ~30...