That topic is exactly what I meant Glen! I can strop a razor to maintain the edge and i believe i didnt do anything to harm the edge when i did strop it for the first time. My technique hasn't changed at all. But stropping to improve one or having and knowing how to use pasted strops is beyond any beginner when they're shopping for their first razor and see one advertised as "shave ready." In my mind that means, or should mean, all it needs is a regular stropping before putting it to use, not still requiring further work to make it shaveable.
All I meant by my first comment was it seemed like a waste of a valuable and apparently limited source, meaning a coticule, to wear it down by putting out an edge that still needs more work. My first time ever honing a razor it shaved better after I played around on a norton 4x8 & Chinese 12k.
Edited for typo....