i watched a Dovo manufacturing video on youtube and the woman that was stroping the finished products was stropping like a pro but she looked to be using about three to four inches of the strop only, then they show a guy doing the same but slower than the woman for sure! i'm no pro and wouldn't know the differance but, it would seem these people strop all F'ing day so using the whole thing slow or fast probably doesn't make to much of a differance!
Wulfgar
I will admit that I should give it some time before drawing too many conclusions but my experience has been the opposite.
I was slowly killing my edges with my strop technique (NOT the strop) on the Tony Miller 2" travel strop. I just received a 3" latigo and gave it a whurl and most of those edges saw an improvement after 20 or 30 passes, just now. I couldn't perform a shave test yet, I don't know for sure BUT I've calibrated my girlfriend's hair to a pretty useful HHT and those peckers were falling left and right.
I am not used to the straight up and down pass though, and found myself going X pattern by habit.
Like I said, we'll see. But I may be selling my Tony Miller Travel strop, comes with cotton, latigo, and horsehide in 2".