I'm still pretty new to straight shaving. I started out with a Poor Man's strop and have been using it since February as my only strop, so just leather. Recently, a friend gave me a strop which has linen and leather and I used it for the first time a couple of days ago. The strop was the only change I made to my shaving. The difference in the edge and in the shave was HUGE. I won't be going back to leather alone. EVER.

Ed