Hi All,I'm very new to straight shaving, so please be patient ,as I try my best to explain my problem.Before I ever bought my razors, and strops etc., I was practicing stropping with an old puma straight that's been in my house for years and a whipped dog poor man strop.. I didn't use the razor to shave as there's a hairline crack in the blade. Anyway, for weeks I was able to strop away without so much as a slight nick, and yes the razor was sharp. Thing I'm notici screwscng is, on the Puma the spine, shoulder, and shank are exactly the same width at their widest point. So if you lay the blade flat, you can strop away even if part of the shank is over the strop......Yesterday I finally broke out my brand new expensive Dovo 3 1/8" strop, and used it to strop my recently Honed By Lynn Red Imp Wedge..Lynn had reccomended to me that a wide strop would be easier to use early on as a newbie, because the whole blade will have contact with the strop....anyway I stropped my imp, and noticed when I was done a couple of nicks on the edge of the strop! I was sure I didn't screw up, as I was really careful....what I figured out is, on the Red Imp 132, the shank is wider than the shoulder, and spine of the blade..and where it meets is a sharp square edge, so if you have the entire blade on the strop, the square edge of the shank is just riding along the edge of my strop, essentially shaving it, or fraying it, a little. And if I'm not careful and the shank rest on the strop even a little, it will bring the heel side of the blade a couple of mm off the strop, and id be stropping point heavy..anyway, I'm sure this is pretty common, and being new, I just don't know what the hell I'm doing, so what's the technique to keep my imps heel side of blade on the strop without having the shank shred my strop?Thanks for your help......Also is it possible I ruined the edge, and need rehoning?