Quote Originally Posted by Joed View Post
A little sagging in the strop adds to refining the edge edge. I can't find it now but someone posted stating they watched Livi strop a straight on a loom strop. He tested the edge and if it wasn't to his liking he loosened the strop a little and stropped again. After all of the years straight razors were in use if a perfectly flat strop was best I would think that is all we would see by now.
Now that you mention that I couldn't get over how Mastro honed and stropped. Not only him but the Theirs Issard and Dovo videos also show some very heavy handed technique used to strop and hone.