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As you seem to have done, save the strop for touch up's.
Because using a pasted strop on a freshly honed razor can hide deficiencies in the honing. Going from the hones to a shave test without any...

Pardon the bluntness but a strop is not for honing. Honing removes a lot of material compared to stropping. Also in honing the edge leads, in stropping the spine leads. Lapping film on a hard flat...

Well each serves a different purpose. A stone will general be used to take a razor with a freshly (re)-established bevel from a less polished state to a more polished state. A pasted strop, whether...