Quote Originally Posted by Dieseld View Post
The pastes are not to be an everyday thing. They do help whe the razors edge has deteriorated a bit. Or after honing the razor as a final step.

Your paddle strops smooth side and your flexible strop, which I'm guessing is an animal skin of some kind, should be your go to daily strops before each shave. Now with proper stropping technique, that should maintain your edge for a good many shaves.

Good luck and I hope that helped
They are both cow hide, I've been mostly using the paddle only, first chromium then smooth, and hand palm last. Good to know.

I also have a 1000 and a 6000 Japanese wet stones but I haven't used them yet on my razors, only on my knives.