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He could increase his business (and make the customer mooore happy) if he sold 2 strops and paste.
Anyway, yes, using abrasive will eat the metal of your blade/edge at each single pass and missing...

Black could be metal particles of your razor is the paste is abrasive one. Or the color of the paste spreaded on your strop
If strop is now abrasive you should have another without anything in order...

Hello Brder4Life but where have you put stropping paste on?
Have you only cleaned the edge of the razor or also the spine?
Leather strops and water usually are not well match.
Please could you...